Now, at last, my toleration has worn thin. I long ago gave up on using AOL's publishing tools to post my web page. It was so severely limiting and slow, I set up a new account with Homepage.com (now defunct) and now Geocities, which is owned by Yahoo! As of this moment, I still subscribe to AOL, but I have set up a new ISP and I use it much more frequently. I have even routed my e-mail to a new account with Yahoo! in order to establish my post-AOL presence in cyber space.
But I will admit, I have been spoiled by AOL. The simplicity of the e-mail program made it easy as the snap of a single right mouse button to open the wonderful World of Spam, Solicitations and Forwarded messages from friends I haven't seen since the Carter Administration. Naturally, then, I opened it every time I heard my peculiar version of the trademark AOL guy saying "You've Got Mail." My home PC has a girl's voice snarling, "Hey, like you got mail and I already read it... Not very interesting either," she tails off.
Now that I am weaning myself from AOL-Time-Warner-Ted Turner Etc Etc Amen... Or at least, considering it... I go though my other Internet Service Provider to log on to, naturally, my own home page. I have to then go to Yahoo! and log in with a separate password to check e-mail, and frankly, if I may be Frank, and you know sometimes I am, but not really, and frankly, I digress.
But the point is, the extra steps in logging in to check e-mail make it a problem of proportions possibly describable as little tiny (as opposed to an itsy bitsy or a big huge), but I digress again.
Clearly... (is anything clear in this discourse?) despenseing with AOL may feel wonderful, even liberating, like getting rid of training wheels, but it is a little bit more of a problem to check e-mail. You see, frankly, I am lazy. Therefore, I am not Frank but Lazy, however not too lazy to post this complaint publicly.
Moreover, and this commentary is more over than not, no one really cares, especially not AOL CEO Steve Case or Ted Turner or Buggs Bunny, for that matter.
And that's it.