X-Mozilla-Keys:                                                                                 
George Moore wrote:

Bruce,
   Sad to say, but AOL does bite the BIG ONE !
If you're happy with AOL otherwise, you can get a Free Yahoo email
account and see what you're missing, like my Felix the Cat animated gif
that paces back and forth on the bottom of all of my emails. But
seriously, everybody but AOL users see these signatures and also miss
out on lots of attachments, etc. If interested, go to www.yahoo.com and
the Free Email account clickon is in the top right hand corner of their
homepage.  Try it you'll like it !  I would have sent this to Bruce as a
private email, but I was also writing for all AOL users.

George

Something to consider when choosing an ISP. Ask how many emails your
box will hold before they start bouncing messages. We have a lot of
troubles with that sort of thing on the free ISP's. Be also aware
of lots of ads and some services such as hotmail sells their email list
so you will get a lot of junk email. (Microsoft, owner of hotmail
is greedy. "F*** the customer".)

Here is some information about limits at Earthlink which I am not 
entirely happy with. I pay $25 a month $5 extra  for so-called 
premium service.

Paul Lamar

Dear EarthLink member,

        According to the Terms and Conditions on the use of your
personal
web site, each EarthLink member web site is entitled to 250 MB
(megabytes)
of traffic per month.  You can read about this policy at:

http://websupport.earthlink.net/trafficvolume.html

        This message is being sent to warn you that your web site has
just
exceeded 75% of your traffic allotment.  Please take steps now
to reduce this traffic.

        Please note that if your web site's traffic exceeds 100% of your
monthly allotment, EarthLink's policy is to charge a pro-rated amount of
$58/gigabyte in excess of your allowed traffic.  This works out to 
roughly $0.10/Megabyte of traffic.  You should receive a message similar
to this one informing you when you do exceed the limit.

        Your monthly traffic is calculated by the number of hits that
your site receives multiplied by the size of your files.  For
example, if you had a 50K file that was viewed 100 times, that would
generate 5000K, or about 5 Megs of traffic.

        To do a daily check on your web site's traffic status, visit:

http://home.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/webquota

and enter your e-mail address into the form.  It will email you with
a report on your traffic and disk space limits.

Possible steps you can take to reduce traffic are:

- Reducing (or removing) any excessively large files.
- Remove adult-oriented or illegal materials (if any).
- Converting image files to smaller sizes (for example, JPG files are
  usually smaller than GIF files).

(They are totally wrong about this. GIF are smaller than JPG's
for black and white charts. PL)

If you have any questions, please email us.

Thanks,

ELN Webmaster


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