I have long since given up AOL as worthless.  I know others will
disagree with that opinion.  I live in the California high desert on
the edge of a small town.  Fortunately there is a Verizon switching
station about three miles from me and I am very satisfied with Verizon
DSL, with one exception: they refuse to deliver email from Fred Reed
(Fred On Everything), who by the way, in my opinion is well worth
reading.

My solution was to open a free Yahoo email account.  Yahoo doesn't
appear to be too particular who they deliver from.  That is a possible
solution.  To do this with AOL, you have to log on to AOL to get a
hookup, then open up your Yahoo email account.

Best to all of you,
Jim Cook