> Don't wory, I'm not about to defend it.
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> > Right now I'm sponging off of "free 50 hour" AOL disks that, in my opinion, REALLY REALLY SUCK!!!! (I apologize for the above remark to any AOL sypathizers, and remember that it is my opinion and I am biased because AOL crashed on me once while writing this message so I had to start ALL OVER AGIN!)
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> Yeah, I was on aol for a while years and years ago. I so did not get the format. Never did figure out how to actually get onto the internet. Seriously. I chatted a few times, that was it. Nobody else in the family figured it out, either, and so we never used it. 'Course, we were still paying for it because the people wouldn't let us stop service. Many phonecalls later, finally something happened, but it was quite a while, as I remember.
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> Then, I know people that figured it out just fine and actually [shudder] like it. Well, to each his own.

I affectionately refer to the service as gAyOL or AOHELL.