On Dec 16, 2009, at 14:46 , Christian wrote:
AOL still makes about $3 Billion a year off dial-up subscribers
(what we call the access business). We are now no longer an
advertising company as we were for a few years but now we are a
"Content" company and we have a new service that assigns stories
based on page views etc.
I'm surprised the pages take time for you to load. Just using a
browser like Firefox and going to aol.com I find everything is quite
fast. We just recently "re-launched" when we broke away from Time
Warner with a new logo and a "cleaner" home page.
Anyway, looks like the ride for me may be over. I work with a great
bunch of people in the email operations group and it will be sad to
see the place gutted.
I'm sorry to hear you may lose your job, Christian. No one should have
to as long as they still want it.
I've been with AOL since day one (jomac at aol dot com), though not
willingly. I really wanted Apple to continue with their version that
the folks that started AOL had written for them, eWorld. I went along
to AOL because I was hoping it would evolve into a similar cozy
community. That never happened. They seemed to be more interested in
the PC community, keeping the Mac version a rev or two behind what
could be done with the PC version. It cost me $24.95 a month at first,
then $19.95, then $9.95, then $4.95. (Grandfathered account prices
finally) I finally opted for the free account 3 years ago.
And really, the only reason I've kept it is because as an original
user, I had no numbers or other crap around or following my chosen
name. That became more of a pain in the butt that a good thing, as,
a:- spam assumed I was a woman so I received lots of make-up and
laundry ads, and b:- businesses with clients who were named Jo or
JoAnne etc, assumed that jomac must be their clients email address. I
used to care, and try to get it straightened out, but gave that up a
year ago. Send me your travel itinerary, your invoice or shipping info
— tough. It goes nowhere.
Since I have gotten no email addressed to me from anyone I know for
several years through my email account at AOL, I am rescinding my
right to that user name, as soon as someone from AOL pays attention to
my attempts to do so.
Joseph McAllister
[email protected]
http://gallery.me.com/jomac
http://web.me.com/jomac/show.me/Blog/Blog.html
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