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More sign against AOL's email tax, and Yahoo| Jane |
 Posted: Mar 17 2006, 08:39 AM
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Ground...swell...
By John Oates Published Monday 13th March 2006 10:24 GMT New year, new job? Click here for thousands of tech vacancies.The campaign to stop AOL charging to guarantee delivery of emails is growing with more than 500 groups and almost 37,000 people signing up. The opposition, organised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, launched in early March with 1,500 individuals and 50 groups. AOL and Yahoo! announced in early February that they would charge businesses a small fee for guaranteeing delivery of email. Free emails will still be allowed, but will have to jump through various spam filters - the paid-for mail will head straight to your inbox. AOL insists the move will help stop spam. It will start testing the service later this month. ® Read -------------------- |
 
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| JaneR |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 10:16 AM
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 Happy Dancing Maiden Group: Members Posts: 6,978 Member No.: 6 Joined: 15-March 06 |
I sure hope they do not enforce the e-mail tax.
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| Cat |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 10:51 AM
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 Busy Beaver Group: Admin Posts: 17,401 Member No.: 5 Joined: 15-March 06 |
I hope they dont enforce it either. Would be terrible. I use email to talk to kids and other friends in Mn too. Costs too much to use the telephone all the time, and then usually forget something when I am talking with them. Not cheap to send a regular letter anymore either and then takes a week for anyone to get it and another week to get a letter back if you are wanting answers to anything.
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| Maggie |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 02:05 PM
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 Lady of the Lake Group: Moderators Posts: 21,832 Member No.: 7 Joined: 15-March 06 |
Someone out there loves AOL. You suppose it's Wally of Hewee??
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| Jane |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 02:24 PM
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*Young at Heart * Group: Admin Posts: 56,946 Member No.: 1 Joined: 14-March 06 |
Personally I can not stand AOL, but you got a few people that had rather fight than switch, Aol has lost a pile of members cause they are so high on their prices and because they put roots in your systen that you have to go in and dig out .
I edited Lou's register for 1 1/2 hours the other night when I helped Cathy get DSL installed and I still didnt get it all out, but I was tired and quit  -------------------- |
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| hewee |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 07:29 PM
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but will have to jump through various spam filters
So you give them money and then there spam gets to you because they let it pass jump through various spam filters and then your inbox gets filled with more spam. -------------------- Keep Your Security Software Current
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| Jane |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 07:39 PM
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*Young at Heart * Group: Admin Posts: 56,946 Member No.: 1 Joined: 14-March 06 |
Not only that but they will hold your mail up to 3 months when they decide to, They did mine when my daughter was on AOL. They have a bad habit of hilding a lot of it for up to several hours
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| hewee |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 07:45 PM
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That is AOL for you. I had Netscape web base email from the start after getting online and then I seen it all turn to hell after AOL took over and seen that they keep a history of all my pass email.
Funny that you delete it but then they show you what you deleted when really all they did was keep you from getting to the email. So why did they even let you see a history? -------------------- Keep Your Security Software Current
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| Jane |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 07:54 PM
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*Young at Heart * Group: Admin Posts: 56,946 Member No.: 1 Joined: 14-March 06 |
Well what mail program are you using now ???
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| hewee |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 08:05 PM
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I use Netscape that is on my PC but I was taking about how netscape webmail that was good but got really bad after AOLHELL too over.
I stopped using netscape webmail after seeing what was going on. Plus they changed so many things and was making it hard to get around to your own mail and all the help links etc were dead and if you emailed then you got no help. -------------------- Keep Your Security Software Current
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| Jane |
Posted: Mar 17 2006, 08:27 PM
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I never used webmail on netscape, I didnt like the way it was set up
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| JaneR |
Posted: Mar 18 2006, 11:22 PM
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Happy Dancing Maiden Group: Members Posts: 6,978 Member No.: 6 Joined: 15-March 06 |
I did not like AOL. I had a conversational run in twice with them and told them I would never use AOL again!
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| hewee |
Posted: Mar 20 2006, 12:32 AM
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Well netscape webmail used to be good but not after AOL took over.
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