Earthlink Is A Pain

Boss: (brandishing a newspaper ad) "Sign us up for this Earthlink thing!"

Me: "We don't need that. It's just another ISP. We have AOL."

Boss: "A...O...L?"

"That's our ISP."

Boss: "But I want to send email to (his friend), and HE's on EARTHLINK! We can't send email to him on Earthlink while we're using that AOL thing!"

Me: "Sure we can. We can send email to anywhere we like."

Boss: "No, that's impossible. I've looked into it...we have to be on Earthlink, too. And that Netmeeting and Microsoftnet...we're just going to have to join them all. Will I need a different e-dress for every one, do you know?"