Readers Come to the Rescue  By Eric Lundquist  |  Posted
2001-01-29  First, let me say thanks to the hundreds of
e-mailers who offered very constructive advice following my
column about the difficulties of running the 6.0 version of AOLs
client on my Road Runner cable connection. It would take me a
really long time to respond individually, so Ill do it in
groups. To all those writers asking: Why in the world do I
still run AOL? Why not run something cool such as Opera,
NetCaptor, NetPositive or some other freebie? Ill just assume
most of those writers dont have kids (who, if left to their own
devices, would spend their entire lives chatting and e-mailing
away on AOL). Of course, AOL has some parental control features,
which make you feel a bit more in control until you realize the
kids are way ahead of you in circumventing these features. For
the record, I am no fan of AOL, but I have come to accept my
kids desire to run in an AOL world. To all those folks who
offered an incredibly wide range of suggestions