OddOne.....
"I've been with AOL since they started in the UK, great service"
The thread was initiated due frustration. I to - despite their negative press - had six good years with AOL.
"...get an AOL e-mail address!"
I think if I did (again) I would now be worrying about how long my e-mail had spent in the system trying to get to me, or those that never got to me because the sender had given up. You need some fairly persistent chums - as in one case this week - to keep resending a bounced e-mail nine times over a nearly twenty-four hour period. It was merely to highlight this situation to those with "an AOL e-mail address", not the customary 'AOL bashing'.
"Their spam filter is second-to-none"
I think you will find this is the problem! "Second-to-none" maybe, but as far as e-mail is concerned some, without even realising why, may find, there is
none.