Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG and AOL
From: "Juan J. Buhler" <jbuhler@pdi.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 17:53:43 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, David Kieltyka wrote:

> Gerry Walden <gerrywalden@cwcom.net> wrote:
> 
> > Following a chat with AOL today, I have some good news and some
> > bad news for those LUG members who, like me, have to use another
> > ISP to access the LUG as AOL does not use plain text for email. I
> > understand that AOL realise they made a mistake and the good news
> > is that there is AOL 7 on the way, but the bad news is that we will have
> > to wait until the end of the year to get it.
> 
> Gerry, I don't know much about AOL...but might it be possible to get an
> Internet connection via AOL dial-up and then just use your software of
> choice to browse, read mail & newsgroups, etc.? If they have you locked in
> tight to their proprietary software that's a shame.

Or you can always sign up with a free web-based mail provider, like
yahoo or hotmail, and use that account for mail lists. No need to pay
a different ISP...

j

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