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To: Jacky AY who wrote (6603)	12/30/1997 2:21:00 PM
From: the Druid	Respond to of 13594

My guess is 2 CD-ROMs and 5 diskettes. But did you sign with the AOL?

To: Jacky AY who wrote (6603)	12/31/1997 1:13:00 AM
From: Jacky AY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

So, the Druid thinks I only got 2 CD's and 5 disks from the mail??? Let me just count. And please forgive me if I lost track on the numbers. I have received 5 official AOL CD's and 4 disks in total. Plus, I got 6 more MacWorld CD's that have AOL bundled. And oh, I forgot the one on the system recovery CD. So, you can just add up the total. In average, I received more than 1 AOL CD/disk every two weeks since I bought my computer some eight months ago. The last time I signed up for AOL was probably in 1994. Back then, the web wasn't as popular as nowadays. I cancelled my subscription after the trial period (which was only 10 hrs back then) because my modem was too slow to display AOL graphics. Since then, I discovered the WWW and never looked back to even trying AOL though I got a faster modem. Why? I don't need AOL's proprietary content anymore. Everything is available from the web. Plus, that's too much trouble to even cancel AOL's trial subscription. They put me on hold on the phone for more than an hour to reach a representative. And not to mention the attitude of the AOL staff...