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To: rhet0ric who wrote (9140)3/30/1998 8:00:00 PM
From: Harry Larson  Respond to of 13594
 
And there's AOL's proprietary compression, which degrades images and
makes unusable many forms and other cgi stuff; plus other out-of- standard things (including in what AOL calls MSFT IE, but which is a huge bastardization of it) that requires many sites to post special "if you're accessing via AOL" disclaimers and apologies.



To: rhet0ric who wrote (9140)3/31/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: LoLoLoLita  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13594
 
you compared AOL's network to accessing a *local* ISP.

what about the nationwide ISPs like those from the telcos,
earthlink, ibm, etc.? Do they have distributed servers
all across the country? Or a single access point like AOL?


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