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Sascha,

thanks for your insights. that indeed does sound scary. I remember hearing
something about AOL along these lines a long time ago on the US market. didn't
really take notice because it was never relevant for me, too far away and
totally out of the question up here. heck, I even remember hearing about an
American guy who got thrown out from AOL because of an ironic (provocative as it
was I can't remember it) signature that he used. the land of the free, indeed
:-). poor Netscape.........

btw, how much would you normally pay for Internet access in Germany (or
elsewhere in Europe)? here you'd pay something around  \ufffd 0,01 (during business
hours = more expensive) / minute for the phone (plus a connection charge per
call that is roughly \ufffd 0,08) and (depending on the ISP, some are for free) \ufffd 8
for one month of unlimited Internet access.

cheers,

Bj\ufffdrn Elfstr\ufffdm

Sascha Franck wrote:

> From: "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@...>
>
> 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