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This is less a matter of good manners than of practicality. If your picture has been seen on the front page of every major newspaper in the country, plus the AOL welcome screen and telephone poles and shop windows in your community, then, Missy, taking your husband's name is just not going to help...
...average price for a gallon of gas exceeds $2 in every state; California has the highest average at $2.48 and New Jersey the lowest at $2.02 ? The Supreme Court ruled that individual retirement accounts, like 401(k)s, are exempt from creditors in bankruptcy ? AOL launched an Internet phone service, for members only at first; monthly fees start...
...President Bush, whom he sees as plunging down the conservative trail blazed by Ronald Reagan two decades ago: “He’s not the founder of something really terrible like Reagan is. He’s like the next degraded installment—like AOL...
...million customers. It was bad enough that America Online users, clearly identifiable by the aol.com attached to their user IDs, were making all the usual mistakes -- asking dumb questions, posting messages in the wrong place and generally behaving like boorish tourists. But because of a temporary bug in AOL's software, every message they wrote was duplicated eight times -- magnifying their errors and making the AOL folks sitting targets for locals already disposed to resent their presence...
...result was a verbal conflagration that dominated the newsgroups for weeks and is still smoldering four months later. "It looks like Beavis and Butt-head finally bought themselves a cheap modem," wrote an Internet regular, in one of the gentler messages. Things deteriorated when the AOL crowd began to give as good as they got, hinting that the old-timers ought to make way for people who actually paid for their Internet services. Feelings are still raw on both sides and are not likely to be salved until the next wave of newbies arrives -- probably from CompuServe, as early...