serves them right… make a better product, and they’ll come back - as for now, you’re pretty much on your last legs

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AOL sucks, it always has sucked, it sucked way back in the day, and it’s kept right on sucking through the millenium, and right to this very moment, has kept the Suck right on track.

Moderated to hell hyper-conservative chat rules? Check.
Lack of policy on stopping Spammers? Check.
Speed(Sarcasm)? Check.
Value(Double sarcasm) for the price? Check.
Made for the parental Control Freak? Check.
Lack of a worthwhile broadband service? Check.

Why the hell does it even exist? Parents surely can’t be THAT controlling can they? I guess so, why anyone willingly uses AOL is beyond me, it used to be “Z0mg i cayunt fford lyke, DLS, or caybill.” But hell, there’s now faster, more stable Dial Up, for less than HALF the price, so why the hell? You can still chat with AOLers via AIM, so that’s no excuse, I dunno, I just don’t get it.

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Wow! About 300 members lost per hour? That is incredible. They better do something about it, fast, or else, we won’t hear anything from AOL again.

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Well, I pay $25/month here in canada, eh! for a 3meg line. There are others to choose from but Golden.net has the best newsgroup service period with no caps, no cr@p software, no hassle and 99.9% uptime. Why would I go 1000x slower with lagging software that kills my resources?

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Perhaps the AOL offers on freebie sites help a tiny bit in downfall too? :D

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I am glad that they are losing customers, the company is not run the way that they should be. I had AOL years back (I know, I know).  When I canceled my account I figured that I wouldn’t have to worry about them anymore since I was moving forward with my “internet experience”.  Little did I know that AOL doesn’t exactly shut your account down just when you ask, they keep it up for 3 more months without you knowing just in case you come back.  So when they did that, someone got my account and used my bank card online to buy 3 grand worth of crap.  My bank of course credited the money to a new account for me but I’m sure AOL fought them over having to pay back the money since they did leave my service on for free.  And how in the world do they have that many customers? Wow, that is insane.

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Lots of stupid people think they’re getting a great deal, AOL is a household name, and if something is a household name then by golly it must be a winner!

Just like if certain political parties *say* one thing and *do* another, people pay attention to the *say* and not the *do*. Those are the two big reasons why AOL has not had it’s head cut off like any insufferable twit would have.

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