2002.02.10 ~06 AOL 7.0 Hrm. Got an AOL CD ("All-new! AOL 7.0"/"Try it now for 1000 Hours Free (for 45 days)!") by snail mail. It's addressed to "Current Resident", so apparently this came as a result of some kind of carpet-bombing campaigns, and not because I'm still on AOL-TW's "list of people to send a CD". Intriguingly, the provided "password" is "KNOW-THANKS". Phoenetically, that's exactly how I feel about AOL, minus a few choice colorful words sprinkled before, after, and in the middle of the phrase, along with explicit suggestions of what they can do with this CD. In any case, now I have another layer of protection (if rather busily colored) between my hot drinks and my desk, and the provided DVD-style cover (after removing all labelings) is well-suited to housing my more precious CD-R discs (i.e. Debian CD, backup of ~) I probably wouldn't be as annoyed at these AOL mailings if the text didn't talk down to me like I'm a dull-witted, Windows-using, bandwagon-hopping luser.