Should I Leave AOL?

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I have been trying for weeks to get a guest sign-on OFF my account with AOL. I have called and told them no one should be able to sign-on my computer. If this continues then I will have to leave AOL!

How do I move AOL address book to Bellsouth Web mail and or Outlook Express? I was told you can keep your AOL e-mail name and still use some of the perks of AOL after closing the account out with them. Is this true? Thanks you Dennis

Most of the problems with AOL (but not all) are simply from newbies who won't take the time to learn anything about the internet and the ISP they use. These are the same people who help the spammers and virus distributirs. I have used AOL for years and have not the had problems I read about with email. Rule 1: Do NOT create an "approved" list of senders of email. If you do, AOL will treat all of those you miss as spam. Rule 2: Be careful which button you press on the email listing page. If you mark as email as "spam" the server will treat all emails from that address as spam. It learns as you use it. Rule 3: Go to "Mail" on the top of your tool bar and click on it. About half way down you will find a heading "Spam folder". Click on that and anything marked spam will appear. At the bottom of that page page are two buttons, one for "delete" another for "This is not spam." Here is where you can make the decision about good and bad email. Remember, what you do here will also teach the spam protector what you consider spam.

Hello, I was wondering now that I have DSL, If I remove my AOL account, does that mean I will lose my AOL email account?

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Yes, I would expect so. Your email is part of your AOL
account, and if you cancel your account I'd expect it all to
go.

Leo

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