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Alas Poor DALnet, We Hardly Knew Ye

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sold-out-to-the-man dept.

cryptonix was among the first to write with the outcome of the long-rumored DALnet/AOL acquisition game: "Direct from their site: The DALnet IRC Network, a leader in Internet Chat, announces that a sale of it's network infrastructure and services has been agreed with America Online for $1.5 million. America Online, one of the worlds largest international internet service providers has been negotiating with the DALnet IRC Network for approximately 1 month in secret negotiations. *sigh*"

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  1. Crap by FrostedWheat · · Score: 3

    News just in: AOL entered into takeover negotiations with AOL today. The reason, they already own everything else.

    This is *very* bad news, DALnet has been my network of choice for a long time now. I have a lot of very good friends there. The second I start getting AOL sanctioned SPAM I will never connect to them again.

    I will take this opportunity to plug a great new network I've been using lately, Sorcery.net. The services there kick DAL's butt anyday.

    But how long till AOL get there dirty little hands there to?

  2. fdsa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4

    REDHAT MAKES PROFIT!!!

    April fools! Gotcha!

  3. April Fool by Sc00ter · · Score: 5
    Dalnet is run by independnet people all over the net. There's nothing to buy except the name perhaps.

    See here

    You can apply to have your server be on DALNet, and how can AOL buy that??
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  4. Automated bots? by MrHat · · Score: 5

    America Online also has plans to replace the position of administrators with automated inteligence bots that respond in a logical manor. These bots will be able to provide more "services" for the average user.

    Although I'm sure automated bots indeed could provide better service than your average AOL administrator, this does appear to be an April Fool's joke.

    And, it's quite possibly the first one of the day that hasn't been completely stupid.


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