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I'm tired of AIM kicking me off. I'm tired of fixing the computers of sweet old ladies who were suckered into using AOL as their ISP because it's "user friendly" (my eye!) I hereby designate this to be the Thread of Complaints! (Also, this is a good place to complain about Microsoft, because *everyplace* is a good place to complain about Microsoft).
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Yes, but Goat, give me credit for trying it. I had to hunt high & low for that. And all for you! Well. And Joshy. Posts: 1431 | Registered: Aug 2003
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quote:DaGoat: Yes, ttt, I give you credit for trying it. [...] ttt: thank you, Goat. DaGoat: But I[] still can't believe you don't like it. [...] ttt: oh, goat, come on ttt: give me credit in the thread ttt: I need proof
As far as Dr. Pepper goes, my response to their claim that the diet tastes more like the regular is: "Why would you say that like it's a good thing?!" BLEH!
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I used to love Dr. Pepper until one day I opened one, took a sip, and pulled a piece of cardboard out of my mouth.
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How can AOL be the devil when it is so polite? It greets you when you sign on, kindly alerts you when you have new e-mail, and bids you a fond "Goodbye" when you sign off. I think AOL is a fine program.
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quote: How can AOL be the devil when it is so polite? It greets you when you sign on, kindly alerts you when you have new e-mail, and bids you a fond "Goodbye" when you sign off.
I am sure the devil is a very polite person/entity. Ever read the ScrewTape Letters?
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My one and only experience with AOL (I've never used them as an internet service provider).
An acquiantance I know wanted to sign up for AOL's "free trial". Of course, the "free trial" makes you put in financial information "in case you go over the 30-day free trial" thingy. It wanted bank account # or credit card info.
He didn't have a bank account. Or a credit card. (yeah, he's not worth much). However, he did happen to notice, lying on his desk, a check from ME for an auto part I bought from him. So he apparently thought "what the heck -- I'll use this bank account number (from the bottom of the check) and cancel before the end of 30 days, or give them new account info, and she will never know" (That's right, without my permission)
So he signs up. A month or so later, he calls and cancels AOL (he just wanted on-line long enough to get signed up for something free like Netzero, I guess -- this is speculation)
However, AOL doesn't cancel.
A couple months later, I notice in my bank statement an AOL charge for service. I've never used AOL. So I call them up (hold, hold, hold)
"calling about your deduction from my account for AOL service.."
"what is your AOL account name"
"I don't HAVE an AOL account name -- I don't USE AOL!"
"if we are taking service charge from your account, you must have an AOL account"
"no, I don't!"
(this went on like this for several minutes until I get transferred to a supervisor.) Repeat above scenario. I say (exasperated) "Can't you just look up my bank account number there and see who is using it?" No.
I stop-pay the payment on the account at the bank, reverse charges. Costs me $5 for the stop-pay.
Next month, same thing. Another call to AOL to try to find out why they are charging my account. I fax them a copy of the bank statement. I talk to supervisors. I'm assured it will be taken care of.
I stop-pay the payment.
Next month, same story, different verse.
This went on for SIX months! Finally, in frustration, I close the bank account and open one with a new number so they can no longer charge the account.
Yeah -- in relating this story several months later said acquaintance fesses up that he used my info -- but that he had immediately cancelled, so it should never have hit my account at all.
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If you have time, I recommend The ScrewTape Letters. It is a very interesting communication between a seemingly polite senior devil and his nephew Wormwood. The book is a collection of letters advising Wormwood how to corrupt a young man. At the end of the book there is a section called "ScrewTape Proposes a Toast" that examine education. A very fine work of art indeed.
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Possibly even better than reading "The Screwtape Letters" is listening to John Cleese narrate them. It is pure genius.
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