Re: Need help with AOHell 9.0

There honestly >>is<< no help for America On Lithium, in any version.  I've 
tried them several times in the past, and have always been annoyed to death 
with the interface, the customer service, almost any aspect of dealing with 
them.  After they bought CompuServe, when it looked as if quality was going 
downhill there as well -- Steve Case had probably started giving orders to 
dumb down the interface quality, and their customer service departments 
were probably joined together -- I finally gave up the CIS account I had 
cherished for 19 years, and chose a local ISP.  (That was a wrench to pride 
as much as anything.  I think I had one of the lowest PPNs -- NOT User ID, 
but an honest-to-God Project, Programmer Number -- still active.  
CompuServe treated you right, though the fees were high; but AOL...no.)

(I know, the above is highly charged and intensely politicized; I'm that 
way about AOL like many are about Microsoft.)

My advice is to switch to a local ISP, or consider something like BellSouth 
prepaid or other prepaid plans at the worst.  More and more areas are 
getting covered by local ISPs, and you can often find an area calling plan 
on your local phone system to let you call greater distances to cities with 
nodes, if needed.  Do NOT consider EarthLink or NetZero, as I recall they 
may have nasty clauses in their User Agreements, allowing them to install 
background programs or spyware on your machine.  Check on this to be sure, 
but I know >>someone<< does this, or did this in the past.  
-- 
Bruce -- Harper Blue

"Few people understand the hidden majesty of the chicken, the power, the 
greatness -- especially served over scratch biscuits with a roux gravy."
     -- Paul Enta
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