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Notice to all AOL users: (updated)

• Set your email to accept messages from FLAhorse.com (Barn Sale, Bulletin Board)-- CLICK HERE
• If you are experiencing problems accessing the Barn Sale and Bulletin Board, with a pop up screen about downloading a php file, please minimize AOL (click the minus sign in the corner, don't disconnect) and then open Internet Explorer, Netscape or Mozilla (Firefox) to go to this site. That php file is not being downloaded, it is the web page. (DUH!).
• If you do not receive a confirmation message for registration for either Barn Sale or Bulletin Board, check your "Deleted" folder -- AOL often deletes them automatically without asking you. Go HERE for help in fixing your AOL settings.
• If you receive a confirmation message with a link, you must copy and paste or type the address into your browser Address box EXACTLY, letter for letter. Why? Because AOL has the only email that doesn't let you simply click on a link in an email message to go there unless you CHANGE the settings to "allow links and images in messages". Also, the web browser Address box may be misidentified by AOL as a "search" box since they use both for the same purpose which only further confuses things rather than making it "simple".

"I posted a new photo but I still see the old one" This information comes from a Web "Tutorial" web site:

"Websites are basically just files (Pictures and text are files) that are stored on one computer (the host) and then copied to a folder on yours. A browser interprets the instructions in these files and displays an image (pictures and text) on your monitor that represents what the website designer wanted you to see. That's fine, unless the website is in the process of changing. Most browsers automatically load the most current version of a website every time you access that site. However, AOL designed its browser to save a copy of each website in a folder on your computer so that if you looked at a website now, and then again in an hour AOL's browser could take a short cut (not download a fresh copy of the website) and just show you the copy of the website that it already saved to a folder on your computer. That works fine if the website does not change. But, if the website has changed, on AOL you can only see the old copy. Why would this be a problem? Imagine you are going to a news website watching for an update on a big news story. You keep going there for hours but nothing seems to change. That's because AOL just keeps loading the old copy of the website into your computer over and over again. In essence, AOL has blocked your ability to see changes in the website and therefore changes in the news stories etc."
From www.baddteddy.com/computer_tutorials/computer_tutorials_browser.htm

(Note: If you switch to Earthlink do NOT turn on their email filter option or you will not receive any FLAhorse confirmation messages or Barn Sale ad responses).

A few comments from the Internet regarding AOL's business practices:

Two years ago, an America Online customer who wanted to cancel his service revealed just how ugly it can get. He recorded a 5-minute segment of his customer service experience -- during which he says "cancel the account" two dozen times, but still can't close the deal -- and posted it online. The audio file was an Internet sensation, with thousands of customers piling on, leaving "me too" comments on the caller's Web site.

During the AOL call, when the operator tries to read his sales pitch and the caller refuses to listen, the AOL rep plays the bully, saying, "If you want me to cancel your account, you're going to let me speak...you're going to listen to me."

Source: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2008/05/the-next-time-y.html#posts