On Wednesday June 11 2003, Dennis Smith said to NEIL WILLIAMS:   
      
    >> Using AOL isn't a problem; any huge amount of junk attached to any   
    >> message is though...   
      
    DS>  It that ads thing. =:o Is no such thing a free Mail List. The HTML   
      
   Maybe the adverts trigger HTML in the AOL software, but that's not what I mean.   
      
    DS>  attachments by the YaYhoos are their group sponsor. I even see them   
    DS>  in plain text! People with dial-up don't care for this crap.   
      
   The plain text ads are about 4 lines big, the HTML versions of text messages   
   are usually several kilobytes.   
      
      
    DS>  Sorry you lost your AIO job. :-\ I always looked forward to AIO for   
    DS>  the latest gossip and news. I hope things will evolve into something   
    DS>  better. :)   
      
   I had to give up 'editing' the news in AIO back in 2000.. That's when I   
   started uni so I was a) too busy and b) my Amiga was connected to the internet   
   only by a GSM mobile phone. 9600bps is unpleasant!   
      
   I did fix some bugs in the software though, and added background images to the   
   pages (although that was buggy :)   
      
    DS>  I finally got my A1 to do internet. Another case of bad setup by   
    DS>  the Debian distro. There's a DSL/PPPoE selection on the KDE Desktop   
      
   Unixes were never designed for normal users, that's why they have such a steep   
   learning curve. Often, nothing is automatic even when it would be trivial to   
   automate it..   
      
    DS>  I created a OS 3.9 Emergency-Disk in UAE. So, that looks really good.   
    DS>  Another snag revealed: the OS CD uses CacheCDFS which is SCSI. The   
      
   CacheCDFS works on IDE. I use it here like that.   
      
    DS>  Will you run OS4 on your A4000? BlizzardPPC go on tour next month.   
      
   Possibly. Either that or MorphOS. Depends which gets here first. Currently I   
   have no funds to buy a Pegasos for MorphOS.    
      
      
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