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Technology Stocks : America On-Line (AOL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Time Traveler who wrote (31213)	9/20/1999 11:52:00 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Respond to of 41369

alta vista made their download really small but then left it up to users to upgrade dlls and other supporting files if they don't have a recent version of windows 98. check microav.com for details about the files and other altavista freeaccess issues.

To: Time Traveler who wrote (31213)	9/21/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: Diamond Jim	Respond to of 41369

I got an AOL 4.0 CD in my wife's order of Lillian Vernon(I think that's a mail order clothing co?) Too new to know about email.

To: Time Traveler who wrote (31213)	9/21/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: MasonS	Respond to of 41369

Time Traveler~ You might try this...http://www.newaol.com/tryaolfree/index.adp?121188 Mason

To: Time Traveler who wrote (31213)	9/21/1999 2:41:00 AM
From: zsteve	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41369

AOL really sucks here in Canada. they don't have a unlimited connection plan here, and their prices are higher than most isp guys in town. i used to use AOL 3 or 4 years ago, but they sill keep mail me AOL disks or CDs every other month or so. last month they started a door to door AOL 540-free-hour CD delivery Campaign in my area, and you know what: i got 3 aol CDs in a month -- they must spent a lot of moneiiiiy on this. i use cable modem now, will never goback to aol. i helped a friend of mine setup a free try of AOL 4 last month. my impression is not much improvement, slow and hard to get around. he canceled his account and went for cable.

To: Time Traveler who wrote (31213)	9/21/1999 6:26:00 AM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

I would consider using AOL if I don't have to download special software to do so. Could I get an AOL account without that AOL 4.0 crap? Also, does any one notice AOL tends to lose e-mail messages? I have been using AOL since early 98 and to my knowledge have not had an email lost. Aol does seem to have a problem with getting bulk-type email(newsletters, etc.) to you in a timely fashion. One of the major complaints in the past was busy signals. I live in a metropolitan area and so would expect some busy signals during peak web-usage hours but have not had this happen more than a handfull of times in 2 years. I tried the three you mentioned (Vista, Zero, and Prodigy)and I agree with you on all three...bad experience. I do not believe it is possible to access aol without their software but can you access the great majority of isp's without same? Go ahead and give it a try...250 hours now available on free trial basis. I know you won't have a problem getting an installation disc....they're *everywhere*! LOL TheÇow