[alberg30] May want to avoid AOL 5 "upgrade"

Fri Jan 28 11:41:51 PST 2000

From: blancs at us.net

As a former Mac, now PC user (I had to for work), I think he was just rubbing it in.

Kevin Blanc
Terrapin #254

On Fri, 28 January 2000, Dan Sternglass wrote:

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> <tt>From:</tt> <tt>
> Dan Sternglass <dans at stmktg.com></tt>
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> SandersM at aol.com wrote:<BR>
> > <BR>
> > From: SandersM at aol.com<BR>
> > <BR>
> > I don't mean to sound contentious, but is this really the place for this sort<BR>
> > of message?  I have been an AOL user since 1991, and a Mac user since 1984,<BR>
> > and I'm very very happy with my Mac and AOL 5.0...<BR>
> <BR>
> Sanders,<BR>
> <BR>
> I'm glad that you are a satisfied AOL user; you are fortunate to be a<BR>
> MAC user.<BR>
> <BR>
> My only intent is to help PC/Windows users to avoid a known problem.<BR>
> Particularly for Windows users who are -not- highly technical, this<BR>
> warniong can save them a **lot** of trouble. Another A-30 guy, actually<BR>
> quite knowledgeable about PC networking, just wrote me that he had to<BR>
> pay for a consultant for 5 hours at $150/hr to fix his office network<BR>
> after he tried the AOL 5 Windows upgrade. I'm only trying to save some<BR>
> fellow sailors and internet users some grief. It does happen that buggy<BR>
> software gets out, and this is such a case.<BR>
> <BR>
> Since, strictly speaking this is "off topic," I won't clutter the list<BR>
> with any further comments related to this.<BR>
> <BR>
> --Dan Sternglass<BR>
> dans at stmktg.com<BR>
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