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One Million AOL discs to be returned to AOL
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.
It seems like if they're going to go through that much effort, they should send them to countries where there is a desperate shortage of drink coasters.
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At least the floppies you could use them for something else.. how about a law that says that they can not use cd-r, only allow them to use cd-rw? Free cd-rw for us all!
1 million disks * 1000 hours each = 1 billion hours free.
Thats about 10 minutes for everybody on earth.
Turn those disks into something useful; Purchase the AOL Construction Kit?
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Or put the url in an anchor () tag?
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WAKE UP PEOPLE!
They are going to use those one thousand free hours from 1 million discs to get themselves 1,000,000,000 free hours of AOL!
Free AOL for them, their kids, grandkids and great-grandkids.
I'm on to you bastards...
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At least I could get some practical use out of them. A quick reformat and I was set. Ever since they started sending out shiny plastic discs, I have to actually buy a pack of floppys from time to time. (not that use that many). Maybe if they would send the CDs out on CD-RW.........
My favorite part of the 1000 free hours campaign was when they were offering 1000 free hours (to be used in one month).
Hmmm... 31 x 24 = 744
Wasn't long before they changed to 1000 free hours (to be used in 45 days).
I guess MA101 isn't required for a Marketing major
I covered 55 aol disks with fondu fuel and burned them into one mass of metal. I know use it as a paperweight.
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I liked it when they sent me free floppies...those i could use for something more than my can of coke
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Craig Shergold is seven years old and suffering from terminal cancer. It is his ambition to be included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of AOL CD's ever collected by one person.
Craig would be grateful if you could send all of your AOL CD's to the address below and also send the enclosed pages, including one of your own, to another ten companies.
Obviously, speed is of the essence....
Craig Shergold
c/o Steve Case
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, VA 20166
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seems like a better taste would be to dial out and use all 1000 free hours.
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Make a perl script that takes in the account number from the cd and automatically creates an account on AOL and logs in. Then the script should goto Google, search for the letter 'e' and then wget -r the Internet. You might want to send the output to
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