COGwriter to Leave AOL

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As most long term readers of the COGwriter page are aware, this website originally began as an AOL member site.

And it was only on AOL until 2 1/2 years ago.

AOL originally provided its members the ability to have a free webpage.

However, this month I received notification from AOL that it is eliminating all member pages (the option of continuing and paying was not offered), and this would include my old COGwriter site. Here is what they sent me and apparently many others:

We’re sorry to inform you that on Oct. 31, 2008, AOL® Hometown and FTP will be shut down permanently. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Since there are still a few old pages there, at least 100-200 per month come to the current www.cogwriter.com website from the old AOL site.

Beginning November 1, 2008, that will not be possible as AOL will no longer keep such sites. People should “bookmark” this page or the www.cogwriter.com website instead of first going to the old AOL pages as they simply will no longer exist.

However, since I stopped providing updates at the AOL site some time ago, everything at www.cogwriter.com will still be available and unaffected by the AOL announcement. Those of you who do not come to this page from AOL will experience NO CHANGE.

However, those of you who would like to receive regular updates via email for the news items on this page can sign up for this free service. This way you can automatically receive the news page items automatically (although they are only sent daily by this service). It only takes about 2 minutes to do it.