[vox] Heresy! AOL on Linux?

[Dave Margolis]

Richard Crawford wrote:

> Having chatted with my sister a bit, I find that the two major features
> she wants to keep from AOL are:
> 
> 1.  Her e-mail address (she says she's had it for so long it would be too
> much of a hassle to change it; though I figure it would be nice to have a
> new e-mail address that isn't inundated by spam); and

She has that right.  Some of us don't mind changing, but you can't really 
argue with that.

> 
> 2.  She frequents several AOL role-playing chatrooms which, she says, can
> only be accessed directly from AOL.  I don't know about that one; I've
> never had a problem getting into AOL chat rooms from GAIM, but I haven't
> tried very many either.

Hmmm, I bet Yahoo or other chat rooms offer just as much in this area, 
unless she has specific friends she wants to stay with or whatever.

> 
> Yeah, I'd love to install Linux with KDE on her machine, but I don't think
> it's going to happen.  Ah, well.  :-(
> 

She'll come around.  Send her a few viruses.  :-)