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Skriven 2005-03-12 09:16:46 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
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Ärende: I've Been AOL'd
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-> A friend who is on AOL told me about a new offer from them of
-> US$14.95/mo for unlimited service.

-> That sounded real good to me so I dialed the number my friend gave me to
-> talk to someone at AOLs' billing department.

Your first mistake :-(

-> The fellow walked me through a software install, 
   
Second, you have my sympathies.

-> and when I got to the
-> part where I'd have to connect to AOL, I hung up with him and had my
-> laptop dial them up.

-> I got to the part about paying them and chose Checking.
-> The next screen mentioned there was an extra US$5.00 charge for
-> checking, and it had to be by EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer), 
   
Which means you're paying a premium for cutting THEIR expenses :-(

-> and it
-> wanted me to enter my Banks name and the routing and account numbers on
-> the bottom of my check.                                        

I'm outta there.
Around here Publix has been caught twice double billing on grocery
bills paid with check cards. 
I wonder what the interest on two days receipts are before those errors
were corrected?

-> I had been intending on writing a personal check to them monthly.
-> So I Signed Off and called them back on the L/L.

-> I got to talk with another man, and was told AOL doesn't send out
-> bills, 
   
They used to, and sent them and sent them long after you attempted to
cancel the account numerous times.

-> they only accept major credit cards or do EFT checking
-> (with the added US$5.00/mo fee of course), or it could be put on my
-> Telephone Bill if I wanted them to. I didn't.
-> So I thanked him, hung up the phone, and proceeded to Uninstall AOL.

You had a years spare time?
Or did you just start from format to make it easier <g>

-> Control Panels' Remove function worked OK but when it was finished there
-> were still 3 AOL icons on my Desktop.
-> I checked them for Properties and deleted the sub-directories they
-> referred to, then I removed the 3 shortcut icons.

-> (I know by now someone reading this is giggeling)   

Not really, I feel your pain.
AOL has never _graced_ a machine of mine but I've seen what it's
done to others.

-> I changed ZoneAlarms' settings for AOL and IE to "ASK", then started up
-> IE and changed the Home Address to NetZero, since I didn't want AOL to
-> be the first thing my browser wanted to log on to.
-> Then I started Netscape Communicator 4.75 and chose it as my Default
-> Browser.

-> The next day I decided to log on to NetZero.
-> Everything was going fine UNTIL a IE 5.5 window showed up on the screen.
-> When ZA asked for permission I told it NO, then I X'd the IE window to
-> close it.

-> The IE window opened up a couple of more times while I was logged on,
-> and I gave it the same treatment as before.
-> (I only use IE on the net when I actually HAVE TO.)
              
-> I've thought about trying FIrefox and Thunderbird instead of my old
-> Netscape browser, but I haven't d/l'd it yet.
-> I'll probably have this IE problem if I do that.

They should offer the choice of default browser and that should be that
however with AOL I make no gaurantee.

-> My only benefit from this ordeal is I was upgraded to IE 5.5 from the
-> 4.0 that was on my laptop, and Juno now requires IE 5.0+ so I can log on
-> to their webmail site using Juno.

-> I have read before of the bloat that AOL leaves on a computer that
-> someone has tried to remove it from, and now it has happened to me.

Never been tempted to install AOL.
I freaked when my sister pursuing here doctorate
was using her computer to comunnicate with her schoool and associates
with Procom.
The kids logged onto AOL and it promptly reassigned her modems  IRQ
and COM ports so ONLY AOL could be reached. 

-> IE now says something like Internet Explorer Provided By AOL, and I have
-> the AOL logo that rotates instead of MSs' Blue E.

The _gift_ that keeps on giving :-(

For a while there Netscape, before buyout, had that miserable AOL
messanger that was a pest.        

Now we have a good alternative in www.mozilla.org
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