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NoMoreAolCds.com

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http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
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PayOL

I've never used AOL. I never will. I would however pay for a software program that would prevent AOL desktop icons from EVER appearing on my system. It could run as a plugin to a virus scan program, scanning every program I install and removing anything distributed by AOL.

Is anyone else out there tired of the final phase of a program installation being the manual deletion of a desktop, start menu, and program launch icon for AOL???

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Location: Connecticut USA
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Re: PayOL

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Originally posted by Keefer Lucas
Is anyone else out there tired of the final phase of a program installation being the manual deletion of a desktop, start menu, and program launch icon for AOL???

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It's even pekier than the MSN stuff...

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Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 229

I've had a lot of use with those AOL cd's and cases. I used them for my science project ones, fins for my water bottle rocket and wheels for my mouse trap car. They serve as good coasters. I had a tin case come with a cd recently, looks kewl..gonna spray paint it.

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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Why would I want to get rid of the AOL, MSN, etc. CDs? They make great coasters.

Jason

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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Nebraska- the Good life
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I will join in any "Anti-AOL/MSN/etc." protest you want. I am sick and tired of the 'free CD blitz', the pop-ups, the auto-installed stuff, and the pesky attempts to bundle it in every other peice of software in the galaxy.

I liked the anti-AOL CD's website posted earlier- I have a heap of them I will be sending in (nowhere near the 30+ pound box one person did, though! Wow!)

It is fun recycling these, but let's be fair- they are only mediocre as coasters. They are better with a few felt footpads stuck on the bottom if you want to go that far. I've seen them used as wheels, decorations, scarecrows (hang them in a tree that you want to keep birds out of- the flashing reflections scare some birds away), mini-Frisbees, BB or trap-shooting targets, and so on- but I have not seen too many ideas that the average person can use to get rid of all the flipping disks they get in the mail!

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Originally posted by Madkins007
It is fun recycling these, but let's be fair- they are only mediocre as coasters. They are better with a few felt footpads stuck on the bottom if you want to go that far. I've seen them used as wheels, decorations, scarecrows (hang them in a tree that you want to keep birds out of- the flashing reflections scare some birds away), mini-Frisbees, BB or trap-shooting targets, and so on- but I have not seen too many ideas that the average person can use to get rid of all the flipping disks they get in the mail!

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Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Spring Lake Park, MN (45min from minneapolis)
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I Have currently(5 months ago) began a collection of these kind of cd's. One from each version of aol i have been sent, etc.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
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Yummy Dummy

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Good PR: Make the CDs re-writeable.

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Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Elkins Park, Pa
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Re: Yummy Dummy

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Originally posted by Keefer Lucas
Better PR: Make them edible (and indescribably delicious). "Honey, do we have anymore AOL CDs? The game is about to start and the guys are getting hungry!"

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Here's how to settle this dispute: Writeable edible CDs . "Honey, don't eat those! They've got our backup files!"

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
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Re: Re: Yummy Dummy

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Originally posted by ernieba1

"Honey, don't eat those! They've got our backup files!"

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