Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!austlcm.sps.mot.com!rjacks From: rjacks@austlcm.sps.mot.com (rodney jacks/vlk9) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: WANTED: America Online OPINIONS Message-ID: <1991May23.180955.14098@oakhill.sps.mot.com> Date: 23 May 91 18:09:55 GMT References: <1991May22.065212.29985@agate.berkeley.edu> > <1991May23.024406.3740@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991May23.125934.10345@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@oakhill.sps.mot.com Organization: Motorola Inc, Austin, Texas Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: 223.8.248.12 >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 >>One thing I don't hear people saying is why they bother to pay >>for these services when they have the Internet. What do you get >>from AOL that you don't from the Internet? >>Steve Dorner \Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu -- This is one thing I failed to mention in my original post which started this thread. I am interested in America Online because we do not have a direct Internet connection here at Motorola. Therefore I cannot FTP to any of the archives. A lot of things never make it to mac.binaries. I have tried using the Rice mail server for downloads but large files never reach me. I receive small binhex files just fine, but not anything over 150kb. Anyway, I have received a number of opinions concerning AOL... 90% have been positive. I have saved all (including net replies) and will send a summary to anyone who is interested. Thanks to all. -Rodney *********************************************************** ** Rodney Jacks ** ** Motorola Inc, Austin, Texas ** ** E-mail: rjacks@austlcm.sps.mot.com ** ** Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from ** ** happening all at once. ** ***********************************************************