Re: Domain Name on AOL

by "Paul Wilson" <webgooru(at)gte.net>

Date:	Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:11:37 -0500
To:	"Ted Temer" <temer(at)c-zone.net>, "HWGBASICS" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	sportsstuff localhost
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> First off--AOL was not designed to be a Domain Name host. AOL was >created
to do just one thing--make money for the owners, staff and stockholders of
AOL.
>
> That's what all the proprietary browsers, interfaces and such are all
about.
> To aid in the profit of AOL and not to assist their clients or make it
easy
> to either surf the web or create web sites of their own.

I agree 100%.   AOL and Compu$erve predate the web (the WWW part) as we know
it today.  Perhaps it's time for them to shake off their early BBS ways and
become real ISP's.

Paul Wilson
webgooru(at)gte.net

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