On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:31:26 -0500, Jim wrote:

HK wrote:
John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.
The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

You and Harry make a great pair.
Pick a religion and go for it.


You are more than a bit over the edge this morning, Herring.
Are you now accusing me of being anti-Semitic? I have nothing against
Christianity, by the way, but I have no respect for assholes like you
who claim to be Christians but whose behavior says otherwise.


And your behavior is condoned by what religion? WAFA

He seems to skip over that question.
--
John

John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:31:26 -0500, Jim wrote:

HK wrote:
John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.
The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................
You and Harry make a great pair.
Pick a religion and go for it.

You are more than a bit over the edge this morning, Herring.
Are you now accusing me of being anti-Semitic? I have nothing against
Christianity, by the way, but I have no respect for assholes like you
who claim to be Christians but whose behavior says otherwise.


And your behavior is condoned by what religion? WAFA

He seems to skip over that question.



Wow...someone quoted florida jim. I'll bet like you he claims to be a
Christian, too, even though he behaves otherwise.

HK wrote:
John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:31:26 -0500, Jim wrote:

HK wrote:
John wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:03:47 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.
The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................
You and Harry make a great pair.
Pick a religion and go for it.

You are more than a bit over the edge this morning, Herring.
Are you now accusing me of being anti-Semitic? I have nothing
against Christianity, by the way, but I have no respect for assholes
like you who claim to be Christians but whose behavior says otherwise.


And your behavior is condoned by what religion? WAFA

He seems to skip over that question.



Wow...someone quoted florida jim. I'll bet like you he claims to be a
Christian, too, even though he behaves otherwise.

What religion condones your behavior?

On Dec 11, 10:58*pm, wrote:
On Dec 11, 10:54*pm, BAR wrote:





Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?

Mike wrote:
Do people still pay for AOL?

--Mike

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Crap, it was in the 90's when I was building computers for Archetects
and installing POS (point of sale) systems for business. I had a
specific clause in the contract for service that if AOL was installed
on the system, it voided the service contract completely... *My
mother however kept it in her system till the day she died, I could
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Way, WAY back I had an aol account. It took forever and a day to
cancel that crap. I'm telling you, they make it almost impossible.

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:12:21 -0500, BAR wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:57 -0500, wrote:

There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL
Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL. Compuserve had the very best national and international dial-up
network, EMAIL and many valuable support forums and databases. They
could have easily converted their proprietaty screen formats to HTML
and web based presentation but they didn't see the need for it.
Heh - reminds me of a certain computer company executive who told me
that email would never become a mass market feature for the home
computer because the routing systems would be too complex, too
expensive to build and besides, telephones were easier.
Was this the profit himself, Edson?

Actually no - although it wouldn't have surprised me if he didn't feel
the same way.

It was Ken Olsen.

A member of the where are they now companies.

BAR wrote:
Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:12:21 -0500, BAR wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:57 -0500, wrote:

There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL
Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL. Compuserve had the very best national and international dial-up
network, EMAIL and many valuable support forums and databases. They
could have easily converted their proprietaty screen formats to HTML
and web based presentation but they didn't see the need for it.
Heh - reminds me of a certain computer company executive who told me
that email would never become a mass market feature for the home
computer because the routing systems would be too complex, too
expensive to build and besides, telephones were easier.
Was this the profit himself, Edson?

Actually no - although it wouldn't have surprised me if he didn't feel
the same way.

It was Ken Olsen.

A member of the where are they now companies.


Olsen is well-known. He may be a "was" but you are a never were and
never will be.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:57 -0500, wrote:

There was a time when it was only Prodigy and AOL

Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL. Compuserve had the very best national and international dial-up
network, EMAIL and many valuable support forums and databases. They
could have easily converted their proprietaty screen formats to HTML
and web based presentation but they didn't see the need for it.


It is a problem with most leaders in any industry, they become
complacent and don't adapt well to changes. Bill Gates has stated for
15 yrs of so, that his biggest fear concerning Microsoft was that they
would fail to adapt quickly in a rapidly changing marketing place.
Large companies become like a supertanker, very difficult and slow when
they want to change directions. The way they handled Vista is an
example of this problem. I want MS to have strong and viable
competition, but I would hate to see them go out of business. Millions
of of long term Windows supporters have decide Mac is superior to
Windows (including Harry. Vista's most vocal supporter). They are also
willing to pay a substantial upcharge for a Mac, it highlights the
real and perceived problems of Windows. If they don't' change their
"bull in a china shop" approach to marketing, they will become another
Prodigy, Compuserve and AOL.

wrote:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:41:33 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

Let us not forget Compuserve which was there *long* before Prodigy or
AOL.
Yep but if your company wasn't paying the bill it was way too
expensive for most mortals and they didn't have much in the way of
entertainment services. I had Prodigy pretty much from day 1 (IBM
subsidized it for us) They had great content for the day.
I got AOL very early on because my wife's family were on it. I think
they had an IBEW deal. I really didn't use it myself but my wife used
Email a lot to talk to the folks up north. I did start using this as
my Email when I left IBM in 96. It was easy for people since my IBM
address was gfretwel@atlvmic1 on the VM system
When Prodigy dropped the "Classic" service, I dropped them.
I still keep this AOL account but I think it will go away soon, when I
get my own domain. That way I will own my Email address. It will take
a while to get the word out tho, since I have had this as my primary
address for so long.


You don't need to pay for an AOL account to have AOL email. I would
check and verify that you can keep the same email address even if you
drop their service.

wrote:
On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.

The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

We are more creative than that. Only an Italian Mobster would make that
mistake.

On Dec 12, 11:11*am, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
wrote:
On Dec 11, 11:18 pm, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:
BAR wrote:
Why did anyone ever pay for AOL?
The question is why did Time Warner buy AOL.

The Jews needed to hide some money from the IRS...................

We are more creative than that. *Only an Italian Mobster would make that
mistake. *

LOL....