No AOL perhaps, but I find one interface as good as the next since all I'm going to do is go to SI and check my e-mail anyway.
White Shoes, your proving the bulls point. If you, like millions of other people, just use your ISP to check e-mail and the SI thread, why in the hell would you need ISDN, xDSL, cable, satellite, etc. etc.? So you can download your e-mail at 10mbps? And end up paying $40 a month for service, config headaches, set-up costs, etc. etc?
When are the bears going to realize that the market AOL predominately targets is not the guy down the road subscribing to Lan Times, running a leased line to his house, running Linux on his pc, worrying about kernels, etc. etc.!! We are talking about the 486/Pentium crowd with 16mb ram and a video/sound card. That magical sub $1000 pc market that has sprouted up.
High speed access is not for everyone, is not readily available everywhere, and costs more. As already noted on this thread, cable access is supported by AOL, as well as 56K, ISDN, etc. Working on xDSL...
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