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AOL in a Nutshell

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Printed Page index
"Buddy View" window not illustrated until p139, but only indexed

with a reference to page 130

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 14
I have found that it is necessary to quite often re-install AOL due

to one problem or another. While you do cover installation in chapter of
your book it does not provide enough specific details about selecting the
various options when doing a re-install. Since re-installing AOL can be
done via downloading (new or present version) or via an AOL CD or via
using a folder in AOL 4.0 named "aol 4095" (which is little known but a
slick way to re-install), it would be nice to devote a chapter covering
ways to re-install AOL. You could call it: "When all else fails, re-install."

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 133
Paragraph 2 - block messages using "$im_off" (no comma)

unblock messages using ",$im_on" (with comma)


 Anonymous   
Printed Page 202
Penultimate paragraph

There are two common styles of mail subscription request
subscribe [list name] first_name last_name (as shown)
and
subscribe [list name] [email address] (not mentioned)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 210
First sentence - Usenet is probably by now the *third* largest

Internet use, after email and the web

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 242
Does the "OS2" area *really* discuss Linux ?

Anonymous   
Printed Page 265
The description of the area "Fans" is meaningless to me.

"The big six" what? It's not even clear what sport this is!


 Anonymous   
Printed Page 287
Final sentance - seems to imply that the Books!Books!Books! folder

was described earlier in the chapter (which it wasn't)


?288/289? Final/First paragraph - "the two most common ways ..."
There are actually three steps described:
drag/drop
click icon
choosing method
Which two belong together?


[301/441]
The second sentance under PFC Password protection (p301) says
"The password is the same one you use to sign on"
The penultimate sentance under Password preferences (p441) says
"you must choose a password (different from your sign-on password)"
Which?

334 Automatic AOL is also useful in those areas (i.e. non-USA) where
local calls are not toll-free. Referring to "unlimited online
time" is most galling to us Brits!

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 358
Penultimate sentance - refers to ftp://members.aol.com/casbama

(missing the 'h')

392 Once again, you refer to "toll-free almost anywhere"
(and again on p393) - Many countries (well, Britain) have
"local calls" which are cheaper than long distance, but
not "free". Please stop rubbing it in :-)

424 Does the AOL filter system work with FTP traffic as well?
If so, then it's probably worth configuring an FTP proxy.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 426
The last two paragraphs refer to the "Users can see sites

which have no rating" box. Where is this? (It's not shown
in figure 28-11)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 434
The first sentance of "General" refers to preference #8

However the list given only goes up to 7.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 444
Preference 6 - do non-US AOL accounts also get the non-choice

of a U.S. English dictionary only?

 Anonymous