Just in case you did not get the memo….
Back in 2002, employees of AOL were having so many issues with AOL’s email program (you know, the one you get when you have an AOL account), that management finally caved and let them use whatever email client program they wanted to use.
From an article at theage.com.au webite:
“Flummoxed by rampant glitches, the various corporate arms of AOL Time Warner have been given license to stop using America Online’s e-mail software….. The directive apparently stemmed from Time Inc.’s editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine, who fielded complaints about overweening — and frequently malfunctioning — identity software, along with problems sending attached files…… The AOL-mandated corporate e-mail client, Netscape 6.2e, ‘is hardly stable’ and ’seems to choke on large attachments like PDFs and graphic files,’ the executive said.”
From another article at Computerworld.com:
“Since it was deployed after the merger, however, complaints have been rolling in from unhappy users at AOL Time Warner’s nine divisions, which include AOL, Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, Home Box Office and Time Warner Books…. ‘Unfortunately, there were some problems with it,’ Primrose said. ‘It didn’t exactly meet their needs.’ Among the problems were difficulties receiving and sending large attachments that held graphics or other data-intensive files.”
So, I’ve been telling people for a while now to stop using AOL for email as it causes more headaches than it’s worth. I mean, keep it to use as a dial-up connection to the Internet if you need to, but for email and web browsing, join the modern world and dump AOL email, get a Gmail or Yahoo mail account. Be free of the pain in the ass that is AOL.
You’ll thank me for it.
