I think it’s fair to say that AOL did make a real effort to get the message out. However, they should have been able to guess that not everyone would get or understand the message, and the company seems content to let these mistakes stand, then politely alter accounts when the subscribers figure out the gambit.
Not cool.
On a side note, the AOL e-mail address may be worth dumping anyway, even if they are free: I was interested to read in an AP story that for older job seekers, having an AOL email address isn’t helping their marketability.
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“Gregg Cygan, a 60-year old graphics consultant based near Chicago, has decades of experience with technology and was a charter member of AOL's email service. Yet he said some people consider his AOL.com email address out of step. ‘They only think you're hip if you have a Gmail account,’ Cygan said, referring to Google's email service.”
Oh and by the way Gmail, whose company's stock is doing a bit better than AOL's (Stock Quote: GOOG), has always been free.
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