[ale] Speaking of AT&T DSL

[William Bagwell]

On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>snips
> But yes: don't install the ISP's software! ?I once saw a friend's web
> browser (IE, natch) completely re-branded as "$ISPNAME explorer" for
> years. ?

Heh, I changed mine to read "Cow Turd Sifter". I was forming opinions about 
the Web way back then:)

But yes, DO NOT install *any* ISP's software! Even when your ISP does not suck 
there software does. Home page had silly cartoon dogs pointing to 
the 'links'. Broken scripts for (censored) 3.1... Figuring out out I could 
connect without installing it was a shining moment.

Of course switching to Linux a few years later was an even greater shining 
moment! Reminds me, I'm coming up on ten years on the net next month. My sign 
up package is post marked Dec 31 97. Apologies for being so late to the 
party:)
-- 
William