I was an AOhoLd user for 2 months... soon realized that the convenience factor was heavily overwhelmed by the annoyance. If you're in the States, check with both your local telephone and cable companies... they may be able to offer you net connection for the same (or less) than AOL.

Note that you can still use the AIM feature without being an AOL subscriber... so you don't have to lose your friends' connections.

M