Comments on: AOL pulls back on email ban http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8543 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8543/comment-page-1#comment-38419 Reader's Write Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:33:29 +0000 #comment-38419 First off, AOL is a really weak ISP. They work to control your surfing purely for their own advantage, play free and easy with the way they charge you for service and support, and arbitrarily filter content and access. It's ok to be on AOL as a new internet user but after six months - you should know better. And second; you should know that if you use the email service from your ISP (specifically, if you use an email address from your ISP's domain, i.e. sillybunt@aol.com) you can expect them to hold your email hostage during any dispute. The longer you use their email the tougher time you'll have leaving them. So don't do it. Either use an independent email service (gmail, hotmail, whatever) or just get your own portable domain name. First off, AOL is a really weak ISP. They work to control your surfing purely for their own advantage, play free and easy with the way they charge you for service and support, and arbitrarily filter content and access. It’s ok to be on AOL as a new internet user but after six months – you should know better.

And second; you should know that if you use the email service from your ISP (specifically, if you use an email address from your ISP’s domain, i.e. sillybunt@aol.com) you can expect them to hold your email hostage during any dispute. The longer you use their email the tougher time you’ll have leaving them. So don’t do it. Either use an independent email service (gmail, hotmail, whatever) or just get your own portable domain name.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8543/comment-page-1#comment-38351 Reader's Write Tue, 18 Apr 2006 02:43:26 +0000 #comment-38351 i dont understand the advantage of having an AOL email address these days. if everyone with AOL email accounts migrated to gmail or other free accounts then AOL would soon reconsider their options. people being what they are will rather stay with AOL and stick it out. pointless really. just let your ISP give you internet access and shop around for the other stuff like email. thats what i call simplified. i dont understand the advantage of having an AOL email address these days.

if everyone with AOL email accounts migrated to gmail or other free accounts then AOL would soon reconsider their options. people being what they are will rather stay with AOL and stick it out. pointless really.

just let your ISP give you internet access and shop around for the other stuff like email. thats what i call simplified.

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