Easy email for Grandpa?

GladGradDad
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:53:50 +0000

Not quite sure why all the AOL-hate. It got a lot of people, myself included, to set up email accounts.

In addition to Cobrat’s comments - the ‘failure’ because AOL apparently didn’t adequately see the switch to broadband coming up and figure out a way to transition and I think the state of their business confirms this point, the fact that people continued to pay AOL for services they could easily get free and often were better now that the internet has arrived, and worse, a lot of horror stories around how AOL made it very difficult to cancel the service, which made a lot of headlines and may have involved a few lawsuits.

Given the history I’m not sure it’s the best choice when deciding which email provider to use for a new user but if people like it then more power to them.