Sure, I get lots of good email, but that sort of stuff is no fun to share. This is some of the negative, and plain weird, email that I've received.

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 14:45:52 -0500
To: miller@pantheon.YALE.EDU
Subject: Aol Revolt

Hi Im With a Aol-hate group called WeHack.i have 8 members.a small team Devoted to Screawing aol up.Im the master mind behind the team.I my self sent my 10 page aol hate letter to 30 thou people since i made it.Im planing the biggest Revolt in Aol History.I going to Tell Cbs,abc,ccn,c/net before this takes place,So they have it all on paper to wacth aol screaw us by killing the revolt members accounts(which i suggest they have a working phished account.We will,scroll,tos,phish,hack,im/mail bomb,punt on the revolt date which i set to be on Sat Aug 40.And i emailed you to ask if your hacker group will join in on the revolt?You tell your people what to do and i'll tell my people to what they do,i dont care how they do it but just do it on sat Aug 30.Thanks for you time.if you decid to join in on the revolt please reply to me at:. . .

Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 05:15:35 -0500
To: miller@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Subject: Webpage simulation

Your America Online Webpage simulation is greatly exaggerated. Although it was hilarious, it doesn't reflect the true performance of the AOL Web Browser. You probably haven't tried it yourself and your're just very angry about America Online that you can't see the good points of the service which is mainly why I use the service for.

Although an account from an ISP (be it SLIP/PPP, Frame Relay, ISDN, or ATM connection) is a better choice for an Internet service there are some services that you just can't get but is readily available with an AOL account. I will not be talking avout 1-800-FLOWERS or anything similar since these services can also be accessed with a phone call and is also available on the WWW via eShop. There are other services that requires your attention so that I can justify that AOL is still worth the $3.00 which are:

a) Technical support from many software companies who advertise through America Online and serve as content providers.

b) Online references such as encyclopedias (Britanica Encyclopedia provides a WWW version but is much more expensive).

c) AOL provides help forums for several topics such as computers (including programming, networking, hobbies, etc...)

d) AOL can also serve as a babysitter provided that you restrict your kid's access to prevent them from accessing forums or topics which contain adult material.

e) The IM serves as an online pager to any member signed on even though they are not on a chat area which you can only do when someone's on the IRC on the internet.

I hope that I have provided you enough information to explain my stand on this topic.

Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 05:17:11 0600
To: miller@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Subject: hacking attempts
X-URL: http://powered.cs.yale.edu:8000/~miller/aol/aol.html

i agree with you and all the other AOL SUX supporters out there whole-heartdly. I even tried hacking into AOL billing and giving all the members a discount instead of a BILL, unfortunatley i ended up crashing the fucker for about 3 hours, but who gives a fuck?!. AOL SUX, AMEN, KEEP THOSE STORIES POSTED! maybe ill write one for ya! (humorous of course!)

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 12:35:29 -0800
To: miller@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Subject: aol sucks

aol really does suck big time. could i please get a phone number so that i may call to disconnect my service. I absolutely refuse to even log back online so that i may be lucky enough to find a disconnect phone number. Your help in this extremely important matter will be extremely appreciated.

Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:59:29 +0300
To: miller@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Subject: AOL BROWSER

HELLO: TODAY I HAD THE UNFORTUNATE LUCK OF VIEWING MY NEW WEBSITE FOR KMEL RADIO THROUGH A BROWSER THAT I WAS TOLD, WAS THE SAME BASIC BROWSER THAT AOL USES ...

The reason I am contacting you is that I need to get a copy of the browser software that AOL uses ( which I would imagine is similar to the other commercial services ) so that I can test my site and make adjustments so that it is at least readable. DO YOU KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THIS SOFTWARE?

To: miller@minerva.cis.yale.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 14:27:51 -500
Subject: AOL Web Service

Dear friends :

We are a enterprise that have 15 years in ecologic tours in the Galapagos Islands, and we like advertisement in AOL WWW. We do not understand how do it !!! .....

We need a lot of information about this matter. PLEASE HELP US.

Thanks for your quickly help.

Regards

miller@minerva.cis.yale.edu

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