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One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you've-got-crap dept.

nicedream writes "Two guys from California are trying to give AOL a taste of its own medicine. They're asking people to send them AOL discs, and they're going to drop them off at the company's doorstep once they collect 1 million discs. My favorite quote: "We're going to AOL and say, 'You've got mail"." seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours. A million people do *that* and I bet they'd stop filling our mailboxes with the landfill of tomorrow.

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  1. As an aol user..... by I_am_Rambi · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I think this is funny. But on the other hand, AOL in itself isn't bad. Yes they do send out too many free AOL CDs, but that is to get more users. As anyone ever looked at one of those CDs closely? It is both Mac and PC compatible. They are doing there best to get new uses.

    On the other hand, I have decided awhile ago to get a new email address because of all the spam that I get. "Unsecured Visa", "Congratulations...", and there are many other subject lines that are inapporaitate. When I check my aol account, its a habit to scan down through the subject lines and then the address of the sender, if I don't reconize the address or the subject is not interesting, it is automatically deleted.

    Pet peeve about the picture, AOL has released 8.0, why are they showing 7.0? AOL 8.0 on cd should be on its way to your house.