Does anyone know how to get an aol email address?

I don't want to pay them anything, or corrupt one of our PC's with their
branding.

AHA

John

Spake John D unto thee:

Get an AOL account.

How exactly do you think you could possibly get an AOL email address
without having an AOL account? Mores the point, _why_ would you want an
AOL email address with having an AOL account? What possible use, other
than spamming, could it be?

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On 2004-08-17, John D <> wrote:

Sure, no problem, take this one, it's not being used

whatastupidassquestion@aol.com


No charge!

ken

Cheers Ken

It's a shame , cause there are legitimate business uses for an aol email
address, such as testing that our legitimate business emails get through to
some of the people that ask and subscribe to them, who happen to be on AOL
accounts. If I had my choice we'd inject them with IQ increasing serum, but
heh we're not in that world yet.

Have you ever heard of the word "testing"?

No, oh well.

No skin off mine.


Cheers

John

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On 2004-08-17, John D <> wrote:
Then pay for the damn thing, what ever possed you of the idea that you can
get an aol address without going through aol....have you just walked onto
the internet!

Ask them, simple enough. Find someone, send them a test message and ask
them if they got the damn thing.....that cross your mind.

Yes...see above.

Have you ever heard of the word "thinking" or the phrase...."that's a really
fuckin stupid idea."


ken

*John D* wrote:
I think they're quite exclusive, in order to qualify for one you need to
meet one of the following criteria:

1. You've had a double lobotomy
2. You've commited a heineous crime and require punishing
3. You have an IQ lower than that of a pair of velvet curtains
4. You've a compulsive disorder that forces you to check out free CDs
5. You think Fox News is 'Fair and Balanced'

</joke, probably>
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Kenneth wrote:

how about this idea sonny , you go take a bex and have a nice lie down
..
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*John D* wrote:
The last company I worked for had recurring problems with AOL email for
newsletters - lots of non-specific things. One plain-text newsletter I
receive has a special section for AOL users where URIs are converted to
link markup (LOL).

Have a look at: http://webmaster.info.aol.com/htmlemail.html
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*Kenneth* bitch-slapped *John D* with:
And relax, breathe out, OK, now, how about a nicecupofteaandasitdown.com
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We have people who subscribe to our emails. They pay good money for the
information that we supply them.

And yet , the AOL users amongst them mark our emails as SPAM after they have
read and acted on the information we have sent them.

Go figure.

We have registered with AOL for TOS reports, registered for their white
list, even attempted to speak to a human that works for them.

In the same way that it's good practice to have more than one browser for
testing cross browser compatibility: Firefox (browser of choice) , IE,
Opera. We thought it would be good practice to get an email address with
AOL.

After all, if your only way of testing a website is to ring up a user and
say "um, does it look alright to you?", you'd been seen as a bit of a prat.
(hey, no offence Ken - no, wait - take offence)

Cheers all

John