Subject: Re: AOL problems

From: "Les Whitaker" <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Dec 1996 14:15:42 GMT

Cecil, from the undernet I gather that since AOL went to the competitive
rates, it's been jammed. <<following is commercial based on personal
experience>> I wouldn't have AOL again for free. They have a nasty habit of
yanking your posts, esp the gun BBS, for any excuse--or without one. Found
them arrogant & biased.>> Opinion strictly of writer--go get your own :)
Les Whitaker

Cecil Bearden <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> Has anyone here had trouble connecting with AOL  ????  I ahve tried to 
> connect with them for 2 days and cannot.  I am using the Oklahoma City 
> Connection.    
> 
> Cecil in OK
> 
>

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 10 Dec 1996 17:01:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, "Les Whitaker"
<[email-masked]> writes:

>y

Since going unlimited time I still have not had a busy signal, prime times
or no. Still seems a good deal to me. I tried Netcom but their lines were
busy more times than not. Besides they also only *give* 40 hours of prime
time per month, 8am-12pm, AOL says unlimited and that's what you get. I'm
a happy little Vegemite and staying with em.

Peter

Peter

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From: "William J. Graf Sr." <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Dec 1996 00:02:15 GMT

I have Netcom and have unlimited time, prime or not for $19.95 a
month.  Only get a busy signal once in a while.  Also, I went
with the AOL option of connecting with my Internet Service
Provider for 9.95 a month and have had no problem connecting.
Bill

[email-masked] wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> >experience>> I wouldn't have AOL again for free. They have a
nasty habit
> of

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From: Cecil Bearden <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Dec 1996 05:17:46 GMT

Cecil in OK

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 9 Dec 1996 21:16:12 GMT

>connect with them for 2 days and cannot.  I am using the Oklahoma City 

Nope, haven't even had a busy signal as forewarned after they went to
unlimited time.

Peter

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 11 Dec 1996 17:34:56 GMT

In article <01bbe6f6$a19bb4a0$4850bacd@#billsr.ix.netcom.com>, "William J.
Graf Sr." <[email-masked]> writes:

>B

That might make a few Netcom users in this neck of the woods envious. We
have 40 hours a month prime. 

By going straight through AOL now that it is unlimited, would save you the
extra $10 over Netcom, providing of course you have a local access number
for AOL.

Peter

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 12 Dec 1996 02:37:37 GMT

I have had not had a significant increase in connection problems. I use
the 800 number and sometimes it takes two or three tries to get through
but thats not too abnormal. What I have had the past few days is my
personal filing cabinet went down with everything in it. What a pain. The
really bad thing was that I had spent a good bit of time writing up
several replies just before it went down. 

   Wayne Cook

Quality is like buying oats,
        if you want nice, clean, fresh oats you must pay a fair price.

However, 
        if you can be satisfied with oats that have already been through
the horse...
                          
That comes a little cheaper...

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 12 Dec 1996 20:07:45 GMT

>several replies just before it went down. 

Yeah, mine too. As far as I can recall, I did *not* close the PFC down
before exiting the aol program. I had it open and aol minimized, I had
earlier deleted a pile of stuff in 'mail I have read' and 'mail I have
sent' and had *not* compacted.

Instead of maximizing and closing I just clicked the 'close' menu option
>from  the minimized version. Next time I went back in the PFC was trash
along with all of the addresses for 'my favorite places' Grrrrr

Peter

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Pollard)
Date: 13 Dec 1996 20:49:41 GMT

The problem with this new AOL payment plan is that theoretically a few
users could log on permanently and block the whole local access.  THey
would not pay for the local phone call and they don't pay for being on AOL
the extra time.

This could be a REAL BIG problem

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 14 Dec 1996 15:52:34 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Chris Pollard)

>This could be a REAL BIG problem

They would have to be at the keyboard all the time as AOL will log you off
automatically if nothing is happeneing. No file transfers, no keystrokes.
I have been warned while composing e-mail on line. I was typing in the
editor and after about 10 mins  a message popped up saying I would be
dumped in two minutes if I did not respond.

I don't think it is a problem. I have yet to have a busy signal even at
8.00pm which is the middle of prime usgage time.

Peter
Saving bucks with unlimited time.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 10 Dec 1996 03:30:51 GMT

i have had some prob . mostly at peak use time .they had a note at member
services about e-mail and any attached files getting lost in the sys. or
just plain not working at all .but that has been 2 or 3 days ago.  iam in
the central florida area and havealso had prob. logging on the sys.i get
buzy sig. or a recording that this is not a working number. jamie

jcranegt90