Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!johnsone From: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik A. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS Message-ID: <1991May23.024406.3740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 23 May 91 02:44:06 GMT References: <1991May21.160855.21767@oakhill.sps.mot.com> <1991May22.065212.29985@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 21 baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes: >AO uses their own protocol for downloading, but I've always found it >pretty fast. The modem is almost always receiving, so at least >they're not using XMODEM or something. >The only thing I don't like about downloading files from AO is that >there's no way to batch them up and download them all at once. So if >you have six or seven files to download, you pretty much have to >babysit the machine until they're done. But that's a small quibble; >AO is otherwise a pleasure to use. Yes! this would make downloading much nicer! Does anyone know if this is a planned addition to version 2.0 (supposedly out summer 91)? My only other gripe is that AOL has no gateway to the rest of the world. I would love to have some sort of way to e-mail to and from Internet. Erik A. Johnson, Graduate Student \ Internet: johnsone@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering \ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \ AmericaOnline: ErikAJ