[seanyepez]

I received 12 discs last month. I'm almost 15 years old. Assuming I live to be 80 and assuming my rate of receiving AOL discs continues, I will accumulate 9,360 discs in the remainder of my life. Now, in order for me to be online for the rest of my life, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, I will need 570 discs, or 569,400 hours. So, when I die, my estate will have 8,790 discs remaining. This would enable me to maintain my "eternal Internet connection" on AOL for the following 1,047 years.

[Phanguye]

me an my friends have amassed a collection that is over 10,000... any day now we are going to go dumb them on someones front porch

[CollinG3G4]

Originally posted by Phanguye:
me an my friends have amassed a collection that is over 10,000... any day now we are going to go dumb them on someones front porch

Be sure to take pix and post them!

[Mulattabianca]

Huh!

I had one curtain that i decorated with 50 cds.. it was too boring. I wanted to decorate the toilet as well with cd mosaics, but.. before i have a bathroom of my own i think there is no way of doing that... maybe a carneval dress made of cds next year?? hmm...

I use the M$ office 2000 - cds as cupholders... so my table will not get dirty..

[Mr. Blur]

a bit odd isn't it, that aol has a "no spam" policy (like most isp's) yet they continue to bulk mail all those cd's every few weeks.

[Nimisys]

actually i keep them, every time i go on a trip i use the free time and tons of local access numbers. works really well actually

[macvillage.net]

Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
a bit odd isn't it, that aol has a "no spam" policy (like most isp's) yet they continue to bulk mail all those cd's every few weeks.

LOL

never thought of that

[Nimisys]

there is no law against real junk mail... only cyber junk mail

[macvillage.net]

Originally posted by Nimisys:
there is no law against real junk mail... only cyber junk mail

Unless you live in Europe, there is no law against cyber junk mail (AKA spam)... And there is no way to enforce that, since most spammers don't spam in their country. Most comes from Asia (if you use spamcop on Spam you see that very evidently) and North America. Europian law is for Europe. So enforcement will take years if it ever happens.

A proposed bill is not a LAW

This has been discussed here about a million times now.

[nredman]

Originally posted by seanyepez:
I received 12 discs last month.

12 in a month...damn..i maybe get 1 a month..they make good coasters....or glue them to your ceiling

[daimoni]

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[OwlBoy]

lol, great post! I "collect" AOL CDs. I grab them by the handfulls at the store . Hey they are free, so who cares?

-Owl

[Mr. Blur]

Originally posted by OwlBoy:
Hey they are free, so who cares?

-Owl

the landfill sites?

[juanvaldes]

you should send them to those guys who are going to get a milloin AOL CD's and them dump them all on AOL's corp headquorters to give them a taste of their own medicine

[Thrax]

Originally posted by Mr. Blur:
a bit odd isn't it, that aol has a "no spam" policy (like most isp's) yet they continue to bulk mail all those cd's every few weeks.

The difference is that it costs them money to send out CD-ROMs to potential customers and it costs you money to receive spam.

Besides, not too many people care about physical direct mail. It's the e-direct mail that drives people crazy.

[WhaMe]

I believe that this is what Juan was referring to:

http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

The story has been on the news recently.

[Justin W. Williams]

Originally posted by Nimisys:
actually i keep them, every time i go on a trip i use the free time and tons of local access numbers. works really well actually

Wow, what a great idea. My dad just changes his AOL access from ISP to Full for months he goes on vacation.