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   Scott Dorsey to morrisj@epsilon3.me   
   Re: AOL ends dial-up   
   13 Aug 25 01:30:39   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Jay Morris   wrote:   
   >AOL has announced that they will turn off their last dial-up modems at   
   >the end of September. They are down to a few thousand dial-up users out   
   >of 2 million plus.   
      
   Far too late for it to do the world any good.   
      
   They came in, ruined the internet, and then left.  Just like Belgium   
   in the Congo.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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