Webuser Forums: IE.7.0 compatiblity probs looming with AOL software?

Open note to people concerned about me and my AOL "support"

Many moons ago I posted a posting about how I arrived at AOL here is a shortened version:

My first 2 ISPs both let me down badly 1 with poor connection problems and the second robbing me and others of our money and waiting for Altavista to open their unmetered ISP service. But,they do not do it (Change of plan?) So I started using AOL as a stopgap until I got a better deal but nothing better came up and I'm still with AOL. 7 years this month

Ok the service is not perfect but compared to the previous 2 deals it's a 1000% better and I've made the best of it
giving tips out and telling it as it is...Has its good parts and its bad parts.
Since the beginning of this year it has deterioriated quite markedly the Forums moderation has been handed to an outside firm and the People that were the experts (better than me) have been given their cards

To top it all the Forums have been severely cut back and Navigation is difficult even for me.Doubt if people return after wading through this mire

I've posted 3 questions recently and Only had 1 reply... from an Idiot!

before the replies were on the same volume as the WU forum and the quality was good
So they have really Boobed Bigtime with this reorganisation

So The people who should be in there looking for advice /help are on the Opem Web looking for the fixes and they are browsing in places like here hence if I'm not sure I ask people who may be able to answer namely yourselves

On my other forums I deal with many different subjects other than computers and the drill is... if you Know somebody who may know tell them. Formulate(Pool) a good answer and keep the questioners attention. Not Get Lost ! or leading them
on a wild goose chase

As to Madelines query about going elsewhere to another ISP
I live just outside Wigan which is Wired up to Telewest and you'd think we too would be Telewest wired up on our communal aerial answer NO its council operated and a few years ago they sold it to a private firm who couldn't maintain it
And they went out of business(within 2 years?) The council decided to give households outdoor aerials
It riles me because Telewest only needs a mile or so cabling to link the 2 towns up and get another 10,000+ households
Most of Merseyside/Greater Manchester is Telewest Territory yet the densely populated part of South Lancs has got Basic TV reception and a disused Communal aerial!

I'd be using Telewest to get online now if they had a presence in my town

Would have posted this earlier, but could not get onsite getting non stop error messages and "dropouts" on this site

BTW We still have New owners:"Carphone Warehouse" Ideas of how to "run" this site to start! I'll give it till the New Year and see how things Go

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History so far.. 10 years surfing & 29 Years Computing (First ZX81 1k)

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