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From: stern2@husc2.HARVARD.EDU (DethKarp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: American Online
Summary: Fascists
Keywords: AO, argghh
Message-ID: <1550@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 90 15:36:06 GMT
References: <519@janus.Quotron.com>
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Reply-To: stern2@husc2.UUCP (DethKarp)
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Organization: Harvard University Science Center   Cambridge, MA
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AO is very cute, and when it's in a good mood it works pretty well.  In it's
curent encarnation, the system can experience Extreme slowdowns and even dis-
connect for no apparent reason.  It does follow the Mac philosophy more than
any other service.  I wonder why Apple cut their ties to the project?

I personal qualm with the service is that they locked me off the service after
deciding that my login name was not appropriate for a 'family' service.  I
responded that there was absolutely nothing scatological about the name
(Lone Gonad), and pointed out a number of dictionaries, biology books, etc.
which use the word "gonad" without embarrassment.  They were not convinced, 
and their service is easily expendible, so I won't be back.

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Michael Stern             * "My father hated radio and could not wait for
(Lone Gonad)              * television to be invented so he could hate that
stern2.husc2.harvard.edu  * too."                            -Peter de Vries
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