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[at-l] Arrrg....



T1 to your house? I'd like that too but the cost ranges from $495 to 
$1300/month (depending on your location) according to the ATT website. I'll 
pass on that for a long time.

At 08:36 AM 8/27/2003 -0400, greyowl@rcn.com wrote:
>I too use a small internet providerer.  AOL is hemorrhaging
>money and the way to save money is to lay off your service
>and support staff.  The caveat to using a small internet
>provider is that they may go out of business (two that I use
>to use did so).  Any provider that offers up dial up service
>will probably disappear in the near future as the modems are
>slow and (in case for me) you cannot always get a line.  I am
>on cable moden and I am very pleased.  The speed of the cable
>service is dependent upon the number of users, but even in
>the slowest of times it is always faster than the dialup.
>But cable access shall too well disappear.  My son wants a T1
>cable run into the house or at least a DSL line.   Think I
>will pass onn those ideas for a while.
>
>Hotmail, Yahoo?  Forget them.  I am tired of all the adds,
>and the fact that their security is so poor that the spammers
>like to hack into them and send their spam from their
>accounts.
>
>Grey Owl
>
>
>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:19:54 -0400
> >From: "Gadog430" <gadog430@charter.net>
> >Subject: Re: [at-l] Arrrg....
> >To: <Slyatpct@aol.com>, <at-l@backcountry.net>
> >
> >   I dumped AOl the other day. Be free FLY!!!
> >
> >   Dawg
> >
> >
> >     ----- Original Message -----
> >     From: Slyatpct@aol.com
> >     To: at-l@backcountry.net
> >     Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:21 AM
> >     Subject: [at-l] Arrrg....
> >     This blows.  I'm not getting half my mail and
> >     almost none of the originals.  Are all AOL'ers
> >     having this problem?  Are any non AOL'ers having
> >     the same problem?
> >
> >     I can't wait to go hiking, maybe the problem will
> >     be cleared up by the time I get back. Five days
> >     and counting.
> >
> >     Sly