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AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the out-to-lunch dept.

dshaw858 writes "According to a story on eWeek, AOL has mistakenly suspended a very large number of AOL Instant Messenger (one of the most widely used IM programs) accounts, by mistake. I don't know about you guys, but this happened to me and a large percentage of friends and coworkers. AOL says that a fix should be ready by Monday."

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  1. Fun thing: by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en there and start to type in

    "George bush is a"

    And see what happens

    hilarious!

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    1. Re:Fun thing: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Congratulations. Off topic, AND completely devoid of any real humor.

      "John Kerry is a Douche Bag" and variants there of also seemed to be popular. What the fuck is your point? Niether the insults of GWB or JFK were clever or original...

    2. Re:Fun thing: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      In response to your signature: Did you bring the plastic men?

    3. Re:Fun thing: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, peckerface.

  2. Re:Various obligatory posts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Various obligatory posts (Score:5, Funny)
    by dswensen (252552) * on Friday December 10, @12:49AM (#11049481)
    (http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 09, @11:27AM)

    1) Oh no! This could really hurt AOL's rock-solid reputation as a competent and professional Internet service provider!

    2) I heard they're gonna ship the patch for this problem on ten million CDs!

    3) The good news is, almost all AOL users are too dumb to notice they've been locked out!

    4) "You've got ..." Oh, the hell with it.

    [ Reply to This ]

    Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:0)
    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10, @12:52AM (#11049500)

    You forgot:

    "Now offering our same great disconnect rates for AIM!"

    [ Reply to This | Parent ]

    Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:1)
    by fredistheking (464407) on Friday December 10, @12:54AM (#11049504)

    Me too!
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    [ Reply to This | Parent ]
    Me too!
  3. Skype by sqrt(2) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    AIM, just like AOL's browser, has just been getting worse and worse with each new version. Although I don't use AOL I've seen the latest version they have, it's awful. With every new version they add more bloat, and more ads.

    I recently got my circle of friends to change from using AIM to Skype, it even has IM functions for the few people who don't have a mic.

    I still have Gaim installed, but I rarely use it now.

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    1. Re:Skype by cnsc1rtr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Mod parent up.

      I hadn't heard of skype before. Thanks for the tip. It's nice that it works on Linux and OS X.

  4. In Korea only old people use AIM by SlashdotMeNow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The young hip kids all have Beowulf clustered brain-scanner implants built from LEGO.

    1. Re:In Korea only old people use AIM by VanillaCoke420 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      These new jokes catch on faster and faster, I predict they will be modded down within two days or their first appearance. Pretty soon we'll see new slashdot fads that will appear, be modded funny by breakfast, modded troll by lunch and become a regularity by early evening.

    2. Re:In Korea only old people use AIM by citog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      We could probably save some time and store all the previous 'jokes'. When a new one appears it can than have all permutations of "In Soviet Russia/Natalie Portman/Old People in Korea/Beowulf/1... 3. Profit!!!" applied to it. Naturally it would be Open Source (GPL licensed naturally), prefer to run on Gentoo and be compiled with -O2 obviously ...

  5. Re:AIMs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Korea, only old horses beat you.

  6. Re:AIMs by Gentlewhisper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Korea, only old horses beat you.

    Nope, it's Soviet Corea

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