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9 Responses to "@aol.com"

1. | Reply Frode Danielsen
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 8:35pm #
   

   We have the same bad habit in Norway with people using @online.no-addresses (or even @hotmail.com sometimes)...

2. | Reply Robin
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 8:39pm #
   

   Haha, amen.

3. | Reply Adam Jacob Muller
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 8:58pm #
   

   s/business//

4. | Reply Ron
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 10:35pm #
   

   That reminds me of that Earthlink commercial.

   "Because an Earthlink address leaves a good impression".

   How? People that can't even count the change in their pocket without using a calcuator can probably get an Earthlink email address. I'm so sure that an employer or business partner will see your card with "JoeSchmoe@earthlink.net" and say "WOW! He even has an EARTHLINK address, this guy is the real deal!"

   As far as AOL, if I saw someone put an @aol.com email address on a business card as their contact information, I'd roll my eyes and toss it in the trash. It just screams unprofessional.

5. | Reply Scott Crick
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 10:42pm #
   

   I work for a printer and, in doing business cards for customers, I see @aol.com, @hotmail.com, @msn.com and @earthlink.com e-mail addresses all the time.

   Surprisingly, I don't see too many @gmail.com addresses (although now that Gmail is open to the masses, I suppose we'll see more of it in the future).

   You would probably be astounded by the number of people out there that don't have a clue about business presense on the 'net.

6. | Reply RichardZ.com
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 11:25pm #
   

   Completely agree.

7. | Reply Erik J. Barzeski
   Posted 01 Mar 2007 at 11:28pm #
   

   [quote comment="39744"]You would probably be astounded by the number of people out there that don't have a clue about business presense on the 'net.[/quote]

   What prompted me to write this was someone insisting I could do something business-related to make five times the money I'm making now. He was of course telling me all of this from an AOL email address. Uh huh.

   I can't remember the last time I took someone with an @aol.com email address properly. Oh wait, yes I can: it was when Steve Case emailed me back in 1999 or so. 😛

8. | Reply Mark Glossop
   Posted 02 Mar 2007 at 3:01am #
   

   Well how about this one? As IT manager at my former employer, I had a bunch of "con-sultants" foisted on me to do an "IT audit" shortly after I started. They only had an "@optusnet.net.au" (big ISP in .au) address - had neither a business domain nor any web presence. Yet when I shot down most of their recommendations, I was the "bad guy" being "uncooperative".

   [I found out later that they were mates of the main accounting con-sultant...explained a lot ]

9. | Reply Robert
   Posted 02 Mar 2007 at 12:07pm #
   

   What if they work at AOL?