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    Re: Yahoo Sucks —Tom Sciortino
    "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HGr3ML.1r2s@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) and (...) I absolutely despise yahoo, but for even more reasons. My family has sbc-yahoo dsl. To start, it requires that you have a 300 MHz (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Yahoo Sucks —David Koudys
     (...) Really? I went with the local cable company's cable modem, and besides having DHCP running (it was from all my years of LAN network games) I didn't have to do a thing to my PC. Plug it in, and et voila! Internet at high speed. Oh, and with (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Yahoo Sucks —Tom Sciortino
      "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:HGs841.9Fu@lugnet.com... (...) having (...) to do (...) part (...) web (...) LOL... "you suggest I look at something else..." Well, yeah!!! ;) Nah, see the real problem is that I didn't (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Yahoo Sucks —Richard Marchetti
     Wow! Truer words were never posted. It was like one long horrible nightmare of software I didn't want or need just to sign on for the first time, just as you have written. And the uninstalls are not too clean no matter what. I ran some anti-virus (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
    
         Re: Yahoo Sucks —Tom Sciortino
      "richard marchetti" <blueofnoon@aol.com> wrote in message news:HGsF9B.1CsM@lugnet.com... (...) nightmare of (...) you (...) some (...) Icann (...) No they certainly are not clean uninstalls! I never could get rid of the browser bar. Every time I (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Yahoo Sucks —Scott Costello
   Agree with all that, but let me warn you MSN is worse. We signed up with the SBC Yahoo DSL service here at the office, but we were able to use a router and some creativity to sneak around having to install all their extra garbage. Scott C. (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Yahoo Sucks —Richard Marchetti
   Once you have your initial screenname, pass, etc. you never need to install their junk again, the problem is getting the initial information. I dunno, our customer service person refused to provide us with or create such information in another (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Yahoo Sucks —Scott Costello
   (...) I wasn't involved in the setup, I know the answer was found in the Mac installation section. If anyone is interested email me and I will find out what we did. Scott C. (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
   
        Re: Yahoo Sucks —Tom Sciortino
    "Scott Costello" <scottcos@spamfree.yahoo.com> wrote in message news:HGsJD5.1yGJ@lugnet.com... (...) what (...) You know, that's an interesting point. I should look at the Mac installation instructions more often for things like that... It's kind (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 

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