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Well said.  I think you will enjoy this.  It's John C. Dvorak's commentary
in the Sept. 19th issue of PC Magazine.
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/opinions/0,7802,2615596,00.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Hall" <deborahh@TENET.EDU>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 10:30 PM
Subject: GEN: Comment about AOL


> We too have been barraged by yet another AOL campaign. Now they are going
> after the schools with their latest effort.  IMHO, AOL is a very invasive
> piece of software. When you install it, it writes files all over your hard
> drive. Many home users I have talked to fail to understand the basic
> workings of the Internet because they have only used the AOL interface and
> are unfamiliar with IE or Netscape. I teach Internet classes at night for
> the community college and many of the adults I teach are AOL users. Many
of
> them have never left the AOL website because of the interface and their
> lack of experience. They think AOL is the Internet. We have been warned in
> our school district not to use it. I imagine the tech support people are
> having nightmares about what problems would ensue with the installation of
> this product.
> Debbie Hall, Librarian
> deborahh@tenet.edu (home) or
> dhall1@houstonisd.org (work)
> Bellaire High School
> Bellaire,Texas
> Houston Independent School District
> <http://www.bellarie.org/>www.bellaire.org
>
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