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Article #546Re: Local Malls to Have Internet Kiosks
From: billnech
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 00:00
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In article <32d71c35.20077319@news.albany.net>, danno@chsw.com (Daniel Norton) writes: > >They know their marketing. They'll be able to check the checkbox that reads >"We Have E-mail" just like AOL. But I just found out that AOL E-mail >typically takes several hours to get out of their system into the Internet. > >Since I maintain a couple of E-mail lists I really appreciate the several >second worldwide turnaround that AlbanyNet gives me. I simply couldn't do my >work with AOL. I'm (obviously) an AOL user. While I have complaints about the service currently due to heavy traffic preventing access, I'm willing to give them a month or two to deal with the problem. As for the e-mailer, I find that when I send a message to one of several list servers I subscribe to, I receive the message back within minutes, not hours as Mr. Norton reports. Occassionally, a message lags. But usually it goes within minutes -- sometimes seconds. Bill Nechamen Schenectady, NY A person who designs something to be completely foolproof underestimates the ingenuity of complete fools.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110b47,fb9882e1bbd0eda7 X-Google-Attributes: gid110b47,public From: billnech@aol.com Subject: Re: Local Malls to Have Internet Kiosks Date: 1997/01/08 Message-ID: <19970108173000.MAA08763@ladder01.news.aol.com> X-Deja-AN: 208639602 references: <32d71c35.20077319@news.albany.net> organization: AOL http://www.aol.com newsgroups: capdist.misc x-admin: news@aol.com