I am not bashing AOL users---I was really parroting what one often hears---namely that AOL users are sometimes in a bit of a comfort zone in which they have come to belive that AOL IS the internet. I know how that can happen---In my computer infancy, I joined AOL and started dabbling in newsgroups. Being appalled at the garbage to info ratio, I of course e-mailed Steve Case (who responded in those days). I don't remember his answer, but he certainly did not stop to explain that AOL was just porting into Usenet. (Which, of course, has a high garbage to info ratio....)
The fact is that many use AOL for the same reason that they use Windows---they want the convenience and the warm motherly feeling. Linux nuts like me tend to be more out in the cold sometimes......
