Re: While we're talking about spyware...

"smackedass" <> wrote in message
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> ...do you agree or disagree with the following statement:
>
> "AOL is spyware"
>
> While it might not be, technically, it brings so much crap to a computer,
> that it may as well BE spyware. At the end of the day, it seems to have
> many of the same effects.
>
> Am trying to adopt tactful means to discourage my friends and customers
> from
> using AOL (and eMachines, and Windows ME, and all kinds of other stuff
> that
> I hate).
>
> My advertising targets an older demograph, and I'm finding that when I say
> that my fees are "affordable", people get the idea that I can shine ****.
> When I advise them that they're better off with an ISP other than AOL,
> their
> frequent response is, "but I can't get anything else as cheap".
>
> Am trying to figure out ways to convince them that they get what they pay
> for.
>
I use this scenario...

OK you want to talk to your neighbor 2 houses away (he's the internet),
but you have to talk to him through your next door neighbor(AOhell),
but your next door neighbor is kinda slow and only speaks mandarin
chinese...
(BTW your next door neighbor gets to see everything you do read, your mail,
so on),
And he charges you for the opportunity to talk to your neighbor 2 doors
down...

Now wouldn't it be a whole lot easier if you could just get rid of the next
door neighbor???



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