Hi to all my compatriots on the vintage newsgroup..... My son works for AOL
and I forwarded the recent gripes about the slowness of email to him. Just
sharing his answer with you. Since my girlfriend in Hawaii sends me daily
email and it often is delayed, he has heard this before from me. He's a great
kid that is restoring my old 67 Datsun autocross car that his mother kept in
the divorce back in the early 70s, sooo don't flame him too bad.
Gene..... 65 Ocelot, DSR
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Forwarded message:
Subj: Re: Email delays??
Date: 97-07-12 20:13:40 EDT
From: PAXR
To: DSRGR
mail to and from the internet is slow, no way to control it, we just have it
too good when we send stuff to other people on aol cause it doesn't leave the
server it's very fast, once it leaves the server anything can and usually
does happen to delay the mail, all of those people out there whining about
every little anoyance that occurs only prove how invaluable it has become to
their lives, if they didn't need it they would not be upset, shit happens-
trite but works.
The PCMeter report, measuring usage for April 1997, found that AOL is the
indisputable #1 presence in cyberspace using several different yardsticks:
1. More than 55% of all household time spent on either the World Wide Web or
on the proprietary areas of online services is spent with AOL.
* The other proprietary services - Prodigy, CompuServe and MSN - combined
make up less than 6% of cyber-time.
* All other ISPs and websites combined add up to less than 40%.
2. AOL accounts for 38% of all traffic from the home to the Web.
3. AOL's features and areas are top rated, measured by the percentage of
people in cyberspace who use the feature or visit the area.
* AOL email (rating: 39.8) and AOL.com (rating: 39.3) are the #1 and #2
rated sites in cyberspace. The rating reflects the percentage of people from
home who venture into cyberspace and visit the feature or site.
Pax
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