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Re: AOL!=USA - was (no subject)



On Saturday 06 September 2003 02:26, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 04:18, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > First, since you're on AOL, I'm going to assume you're American, so
> > > act like you know English.
> >
> > Not quite.
> > AOL is pretty worldwide, and IIRC german AOL-subscribers also have
> > @aol.com e-mail.
>
> Why is AOL "AOL" in Europe?  Why not EOL?  Heck, GBOL, DOL, FOL
> (or OLF; they do things backwards)?  Espana might be ESOL...

I like the internet like that.
It has this tendency to dispense with myths like imaginary lines on maps.
Although in the case of AOL that could definitely be a negative.
Regards,

David.



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