As a satisfied user of Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL service for the past dozen years, this week's news that the country's leading online service has made great strides in eradicating spam isn't lost on me.

AOL's spam filter is good -- perhaps too good given the amount of legitimate correspondence that I have to fish back out of the spam folder -- and it certainly has made going online a much more pleasant experience. I remember how embarrassed I used to feel as an AOL subscriber when I had to resort to the free email services of Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), and now Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), because they were giving away features you couldn't get as a paying AOL member. That's no longer the case, for the most part."

Fool.com: Hiding Behind a Spam Filter? Posted by: DTB at 3:29 PM  |  Permalink