Don't you have a local ISP ? There are 5or 6 in my area. They charge
anywhere from 12.95 to 19.95 per month unlimited time. I have used them all
AOL CompuServe and 2 of the locals. Have got the best service from the
locals, even had a guy come to the house 3-4 times when I first set up about
3-4 years ago at no charge. Also when there is a problem I talk to a person
involved not just a ribbon clerk somewhere in Tibet.
Bob Anibal  [log in to unmask]
-----Original Message-----
From: KEn Becker <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, October 16, 1997 3:50 AM
Subject: Re: Hello?


>BArb M, you are so RIGHT!  (No surprise!)  I am ready to send AOL a nasty
>letter about the difficulty of getting on, and in addition, the slowness of
>the system when I finally do get on. I wonder if I sent it by snail mail,
>they would get the hint! ALSO, if I turn my back for a minute, or sometimes
>when I am still trying to type, I lose the carrier and have to start over!
> What a revoltin'  development THAT is!   Am I the only one that remembers
>William Bendix?  THE LIFE OF RILEY! Times were simpler then, and I never
>heard ANYONE complain about AOL, crashed harddrives,  too much Email, and
>TELEPHONES, YES! You called one number, spoke to a HUMAN BEING EVERY TIME.
>and ordered a phone by saying, "I want a telephone" NOT a little colored
>piece of plastic with 78 buttons that 72 of stick, and the other six are
>unreadable, and if you drop it on a desk, the phone breaks in half, and if
>you pull the wire once it crackles and cuts you off when you use it!  A
>TELEPHONE was heavy, black, could break your foot if you dropped it, maybe
>even break the FLOOR, and of course, being an electrical device, after
about
>30 years, the dial would get a little loose, and a MAN WOULD COME TO THE
>HOUSE AND FIX IT OR REPLACE IT FOR FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THERE was ONE
>phone company to hate, with PEOPLE to complain to,  and use terrible words
to
>complain like  "Excuse me, I am displeased, I got cut off, can I have a
>nickle credit for my call?"   You know what? I think that stress caused by
>frustration with modern technology, when it does not deliver what is
>promised, PLUS the lack of good tv shows like LIFE of RILEY, is PART OF the
>CAUSE of diseases like Parkinsons!  At least it makes it worse!  Anyone
>disagree?
>I am beginning to think that Ralph Waldo Emerson was right when he said
>"Simplify Simplify"  Which was great advice, about the only thing I
remember
>from grade school! Poor guy, gave great advice, wrote books, and they name
a
>lousy line of cheap TV's and VCR's after him. If he knew, he'd SUE! Well
>that's all I have to say tonight! Ken B