On 27 May 2004 16:25:16 -0700, James Cubby Culbertson wrote:
The sad thing is, once you disconnect from them, you'll hear from them
about 8 times a month for the next year! They called me constantly
to reconsider my dropping them. Offered all sorts of free hours and
such.

Yup. I made the mistake of using them for exactly long enough to download
a real web browser once, on the theory that I'd cancel and they'd go away.
Their installer put all sorts of very stubborn hooks into my windows98
box (ok, it was a while ago, before I abandoned the windows world for Mac
and Linix/Unix), and they, as you say, kept calling.

Worse, they kept billing. "I do not want your service. I never wanted
your service, I tried it for an hour and didn't like it. Go away and
give me my money back." Took a long time to sort that out and, sorry
Charlie, I don't remember who I called at AOL.