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This is hardly a reason
to use AOL. If keeping your bookmarks with you is so very important,
then put a copy of them on a thumb drive.
The answer to the
poster's problem really is simple, but constantly ignored by 99.44% of the
world: BACK YOUR DATA UP. MASS STORAGE IS NOT
"FOREVER". DISKS EVENTUALLY
CRASH. (rarely, but eventually).
AOL is so functionally
substandard in almost every way, is so
technically non standard, and puts its tentacles
down in places where you would never expect to see them. It almost takes
on a life of its own once installed, and it is VERY
difficult to uninstall. (And if you try to uninstall it, it will tell you that
it did uninstall, but it in fact does not uninstall. Instead, it leaves a
huge numbers of settings, ini files, registry entries, ..., for you to find and
remove by hand.)
Perhaps one of the most
egregious problems is that AOL locks you into webmail in the AOL domain and
deliberately doesn't allow POP3 mail. This means that once you have and
use an AOL mail address, you are obligated to use AOL via the web to get
your mail (whether via browser or AOL's mail client is not of
consequence). Now: think about changing your provider. 30
bazillion people already know you as zork123@xxxxxxx. Now you want to get POP3 mail from your new
provider. How do you download your old AOL mail using the same
process? Answer: you don't. You still need to get your AOL
mail by web access.
I cannot see any reason
why anyone would use AOL for any purpose, when better and safer software which
does everything AOL does and more is available freely or nearly freely. (Unless,
that is, you support paying your money for watching infomercials and
advertisements in their "portal".)
And, oh: back your
data up.
Don Feinberg
ducque@mindspring.com
From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:53 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: I have a favor to ask. One advantage of AOL is that it keeps the book marks online so when you
connect from another computer in another place or when you reload your C
drive they are still there.
In a message dated 7/16/2008 8:59:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
w8imo@xxxxxxxx writes:
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