# Has anyone upgraded to AOL 6.0?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-upgraded-to-aol-6-0/39184>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 1, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-upgraded-to-aol-6-0/39184 "2000-11-01T03:47:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-upgraded-to-aol-6-0/39184/21 "2000-11-05T23:31:20Z")

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I’ve upgraded to AOL 6.0. I’ve been pleased so far by a few nice additions. The most useful two being: A) Away notice for IMs, rather than just shutting them off, and B) Recently deleted mail (\<24hrs.) is stored for later viewing, then deleted automatically.

I’m trying hard to switch my family over to Road Runner (cable modem) and drop AOL completely. It’s not the _worst_ service out there, but a 56k connection and an ISP full of geezers and newbies isn’t that fun.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-upgraded-to-aol-6-0/39184/22 "2000-11-06T00:30:31Z")

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Well, if you are antsy about installing it, read the AOL newsgroups, there are hundreds of messages about it there.

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**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-upgraded-to-aol-6-0/39184/23 "2000-11-06T02:51:23Z")

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I uninstalled 6.0 and went back to 5.0. It was running slower for me and I my buddy list disappeared as well as my ability to instant message. I’m back to 5.0 and I’ll keep that until some of the bugs are worked out.

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