AOL not sending post?

There is a reason (many reasons) so many people don't like aol. They tend to practice random censorship.

After observing what AOL do (from outside) for a couple of decades, I'd see it more as their usual random incompetence.

I doubt they are capable of the cognitive levels required to attempt censorship, even at the simple level of book-burning.

Cheers, Gary B-)

AOL has a history of filtering most *everything*. That is why they are technically considered to be a "content provider", as opposed to a true ISP.

IIRC Aohell stop you from networking your machines etc so you cant share a line.

never heard anything good about them, its the usual case of big tv ads to get people saying wow look how good they must be.

if it's advertised on tv or spammed in usenet, it's s*it!

-edward's law #39

Some people have free AOL accounts through their jobs. I'd still pay for a real ISP though...

Digital_Cowboy wrote: [SNIP]

Of _course_ they do... Who else can they go to and ask for help?

After all, MCSE stands for "Must Consult Someone Else."

Cheers, Gary B-)

Ok, call me dumb, but what's the difference?

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. --Leonardo Da Vinci EAA # 729686 delete the word spam from email addy

Dumb

Quite a lot, although i guess the terms vary dep. where you are.

Sorry, cant help further dumb

;-)

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I've had to unplug my Grandmother's TV because unfortunatly thanks to her Alzheimer's she can't tell what's real and what isn't on TV anymore. That and here Poughkeepsie pretty much the only news we get on TV is about what's happening down in the City. So there's no sense in her worrying about something that for the most part doesn't apply to us.

We spend our day sitting at the dining room table she working on her word search puzzles, me helping her every now and then. And me working on my models, cooking our meals, surfing the Net, etc.

TV is ok, and has it's place, but sadly we as a nation spend WAY too much time watching it. We need to learn how to unplug it and push it way and do something else. Although as "electronic babysitters" go a TV is way and BY far a MUCH better "electronic babysitter" then a computer with Net access. Maybe IF more parents felt that way there'd be a LOT less trolls in the NGs.

probably. too many kids use tv as roll models and for moral lessons. i blame that on the decline of civility, the first sign a civilization is dying. when me generation ethics become the norm, civilization is heded for the toilet. kids have no manners, no ability to wait and little reason to respect the images they see. i'm not blameless, now that i live alone i use tv for background. while i model or play with my pc. you probably know i post and listen to much music...tv is on with the sound off when i encode and record. that might be a bad sign.... "i don't think it's funny no more, crackin' up, like a worn out shoe."

-joe jackson

I used AOL when I first got online, mostly because a local friend of mine had it and so I was already familiar with it. I got hooked up with a real ISP in less than a year...

Yes, but neither of those are empirical truths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Empirical" is used here in the philosophical sense of "holds true for the realm of human experience."

Cheers, Gary B-)

i was lucky, my neighbor started neighbor net by running a cable from his 3rd floor apt to mine. he was an old hand and gave me the scoop on isp's. we used earthlink then. they were great, but now they're an assholeonline wannabe.