Re: AOL Bias

Just to add to what Paul says, be reminded that many folks have aol as their
mandated ISP in many small offices, as I did, who are not connected to a
larger network.  These same people may or may not use something more
powerful at home. So, I agree completely, you cannot assume anything about
the user just because they are on AOL.
Kate Pollara

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From: "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>
To: "James Roberts" <jamiergroberts(at)hotmail.com>; <shawn(at)sportsstuff.com>;
"html list" <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 11:15 AM


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>  > If however they insist on being 'Assholes...' oops, sorry, AOL users,
then
> I
>  > suggest you go and look at Tucows services at
http://www.domaindirect.com/
>  > (offered on behalf of the provider) for virtualising the domain name,
> which
>  > can point to any account without the end-user seeing a relay address.
>  > It's actually cheaper to get a proper low-cost (no CGI) host and own
> domain,
>  > though. I am not recommending this service, which is not very cheap,
and I
>  > haven't tried it (the sub-domain forwarding may be useful to some
people,
>  > mind you).
>
> I am sorry, but I can't let this kind of narrow minded poor manners just
> pass. Yes, many years ago AOL'ers got a name for being ignorant, mostly
with
> the elitist Unix loving hackers.  Today's AOLers are not all idiots and
this
> kind of characterization does not belong here where we are supposed to
share
> ideas, not prejudice.  Besides being in bad manners, you have bumped up
> against the rules of this list.
>
> I have an AOL account.  I use it to test my WebPages against, particularly
> JavaScript because the browser support in AOL is not the same as I.E. Like
> it or not, there are a lot of consumers on AOL and many of them buy
products
> on the Internet.
>
> Paul Wilson
> webgooru(at)gte.net
>

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