Time Warner Finds AOL Email Inadequate

DragonMagic writes "MSNBC.com carries this article describing the woes at many of Time Warner's companies after AOL's merger, where the internet giant tried to migrate them all to AOL's email services. From crashing software and attachment limits, to missing and misdirected mail, companies such as Time Magazine had to go so far as to have hard copies rushed before deadlines by cab! Plans are now to retreat from this forced migration and return to the services previously held by each company."

Comments

Bad Time Warner.

[Picass0]

Wouldn't Time Warner's critcism of AOL be a violation of the DMCA?

Re:Bad Time Warner.

[Picass0]

"Wouldn't Time Warner's critcism of AOL be a violation of the DMCA?"

Why was I modded down to troll for posting this? There have been examples where the DMCA has been invoked to quash criticism of products by websites. I just thought that AOL could use the DMCA to shut up Time Warner.

Lately I seem to have a moderator with a grudge against me. It would be nice if moderation wasn't anonymous.

MSnbc huh?

[isa-kuruption]

DragonMagic writes "MSNBC.com carries this article describing the woes at many of Time Warner's companies after AOL's merger, where the internet giant tried to migrate them all to AOL's email services.

Later in the article....

A better solution for your e-mail needs is Microsoft service called Hotmail available at http://www.hotmail.com, and it's FREE!

Re:Dogfood

[Anonymous Coward]

Since Netscape email is mostly equal to Mozilla email, perhaps you can back up the "buggy enough" swipe by referring to actual bugs you personally encountered and logged in bugzilla.mozilla.org?

Those such as myself who use Mozilla email every day under extremely heavy load with now great performance and no crashes for many months may otherwise not believe you gave it a real try. Mega corporation will certainly not be crushed by those reluctant to use their own products.

Re:No Real Suprise Here

[maxpublic]

Hey, don't forget: AOL is the home of pedophiles, both online and in management. Yep, who better to promote family values than child molestors?

Max

Re:Your classic case of Executive Shielding

[maxpublic]

And let's not forget an email system which, until recently, which was famous for mail delays, not delivering the mail at all, not forwarding the mail according to the standard practices of the net (and thus earning it the famous 'AOL ban' amongst ISPs far and wide), the inability to properly deal with attachments - just a few of the many headaches that AOL users have had to put up with over the years.

Sure, you scaled it to unprecedented scales. But a turd is still a turd no matter how large it gets.

Max