[Magdalen] AOL

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I do not quite get it. are we supposed to find him and stop him?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

>
> On 02/12/2014 20:28, Brian Reid wrote:
>
>> When I moved the Magdalen list to a new server to get around the "AOL and
>> Yahoo problem", I made various disparaging remarks about AOL. Since I knew
>> I was right, I ignored the various squeals from people who like AOL and who
>> thought I was being overly emotional or overly reactive.
>>
>>  From time to time a message like what I've excerpted below lands in my
>>> mailbox, in my role as server owner. Sometimes, in its infinite and
>>> paternal wisdom, AOL decides just not to accept delivery of a message. This
>>> means that AOL subscribers don't see it, and don't get any direct
>>> notification from AOL that some message to them has been censored. I
>>>
>>
>> Life goes on. Magdalen has 6 subscribers who use AOL. I guess they are
>> happy.
>>
>
> On a UK list not hosted in the US there is one person who seems to be
> irrevocably wedded to AOL.  He now has a gmail account, but accesses it
> through AOL.  Some people seem unwilling to accept the wisdom of using a
> common protocol and language for ready communication.
>
> Roger
>