What does this mean

Rod Mollise wrote:
AOL is crap and here is MORE proof.
Herb


Hi:

Amen. Why do I still have it at home? Inertia. Also, the kids love it.

I think this is the last straw, though. They are really the absolute worst.
That said, they are probably not the only ISP (if we can be so generous to call
AOL and "ISP") that would like to discontinue Usenet to save a few pennies. I
suppose I'll use Deja until I get around to calling Comcast.

Deja was purchased by Google years ago, and is now called "Google
Groups," and is a link on the Google main page.

I have never EVER seen a large business that depends mainly on customer
subscriptions for revenue that is as unresponsive and uninterested in serving
them as is AOL. It's really amazing it its own way.

Yes, they are CRAP with capital "C"! ;-)

Comcast may be pretty good alternative; Cox Cable certainly is. Time to
consider switching.

--
Pat O'Connell
[note munged EMail address]
Take nothing but pictures, Leave nothing but footprints,
Kill nothing but vandals...

wrote:

Uncle Bob wrote:

Florian wrote:

You mean he can't access Google? ;-)

Uncle Bob

RMOLLISE wrote:

No... Google has nothing to do with AOL.

Nope. Try to stay with me on this one:

If you have an AOL account, you can surf the web.
If you can surf the web, you can access Google.
If you can access Google, you have newsgroup access.

Q.E.D.

Note that that AOL has been notorious in blocking connections to
premium usenet servers (dunno about the freebees though). So anyone
on AOL who places a high value on usenet access might have to find a
new ISP altogether.

And of couse, when you try to quit, AOL-TimeWarner will suggest that
you sign up with TimeWarner Roadrunner cable, so you can pay into
their left pocket instead of the right.

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wrote:

Uncle Bob wrote:

Florian wrote:

You mean he can't access Google? ;-)

Uncle Bob

RMOLLISE wrote:

No... Google has nothing to do with AOL.

Nope. Try to stay with me on this one:

If you have an AOL account, you can surf the web.
If you can surf the web, you can access Google.
If you can access Google, you have newsgroup access.

Q.E.D.

Note that that AOL has been notorious in blocking connections to
premium usenet servers (dunno about the freebees though). So anyone
on AOL who places a high value on usenet access might have to find a
new ISP altogether.

And of couse, when you try to quit, AOL-TimeWarner will suggest that
you sign up with TimeWarner Roadrunner cable, so you can pay into
their left pocket instead of the right.

Or they will let you quite but continue to bill you any way.
--
Michael A. Barlow

rmollise wrote:

Being able to access newsgroups on the web with Google while using
AOL is _not_ the same thing as AOL offering newsgroup access. They
will not be doing so much longer. Not that their reader was
much...you
couldn't use Outlook, either...but it was at least better than the
web, for
god's sake. ;-)

Hi Rod,

Understood they're not the same thing. But does it make a
difference? How is AOL newsgroup access better than the
web (including Google?)

Regards,

Mark