The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 51, December 4, 2005, Article 22

ON OUR AOL PROBLEMS

A reader writes: "Concerning AOL, I had a problem
sending my brother(an AOL ISP customer) Yahoo News
e-mails.  The links for the news articles didn't work.
I suspect that AOL doesn't like their customers using
competitor's services and thus the links were purposely
disabled.  If you remember AOL's advertising during
the early days of the web, they asserted that AOL's
customers could obtain most(if not all) of what they
were seeking within AOL's site, without actually using
the web.  Initially, this 'value added' approach helped
AOL to become the largest ISP.  In the intervening
years, AOL's customers have realized that the same
information is readily available on the web.  Today's
sophisticated web user only cares about fast access
to the web at the cheapest price possible.  Consequently,
AOL has been hemorrhaging  customers for years.
Perhaps my problem with hot links to Yahoo! News
Articles has something to do with your situation."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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