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Hi Bj\ufffdrn,

> this was news to me, and I thought it would be good news :-). yet, you say
> 'unfortunately'. why do say that? is there a problem with AOL?

Well, the problems with AOL are:
- High charge of money, at least in germany, has changed a bit but is still
too expensive. Just imagine, until roughly a 3/4 year ago they charged 6
marks per hour NOT even including the phone costs! Meanwhile it's down to
3.90 marks per hour including phone costs, somewhat reasonable compared to
others in germany, but nothing more then that.
- Company policies. They simply suck for many reasons, be it security or
whatever. You are often attacked massively by spammers, you couldn't use
external mail or newsgroup clients (even if this might have changed now,
dunno), adresses are given away, even if they say they don't do that and so
on...
- You have to install their shitty software, there's no choice to just setup
a new dial-up for your machine, no, AOL wants you to look at their cheesy
jelly-beanish like interface all the time.

Sascha