AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names

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AOL Locks Out AIM Screen Names 396

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:44AM 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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AOL (Score:3, Funny)

by bryan986 ( 833912 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:45AM (#11049464) Homepage Journal

America Offline

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Thank God For That! (Score:5, Funny)

by Sinner ( 3398 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:45AM (#11049467)

If they'd mistakenly suspended those accounts on purpose, I'd be really worried about it!

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Doh (Score:5, Funny)

by BigJStudd ( 838390 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:46AM (#11049472)

I knew I should have opened the attachment on that e-mail which AOL was tracking to make sure my account was tracking :(

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OMG LOL (Score:5, Funny)

by YouCanCallMeAl ( 773817 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:47AM (#11049474)

wtf? u2?

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AIMs (Score:5, Funny)

by halcyon1234 ( 834388 ) writes: <halcyon1234@hotmail.com> on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:47AM (#11049477) Journal

Bah, who needs AIM? I build my own IM clients out of Lego.

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Various obligatory posts (Score:5, Funny)

by dswensen ( 252552 ) * writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:49AM (#11049481) Homepage

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.

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congrats (Score:5, Funny)

by Emugamer ( 143719 ) * writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:49AM (#11049484) Homepage Journal

you sucsessfully made me log into AIM for the first time in months ti see if I was affected, only to be greeted by annoying friends from a long time ago with LONG TIME NO SEE...

bah

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In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by VonGuard ( 39260 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @03:51AM (#11049496) Homepage Journal

Workplace productivity grows by leaps and bounds for a three day stretch.

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sadly... (Score:5, Funny)

by agent0range_ ( 472103 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @04:07AM (#11049552)

AIM users might be forced into interacting with real people for a whole weekend...

No, wait. There's still TV.

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Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:5, Funny)

by the pickle ( 261584 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @04:15AM (#11049573) Homepage

You forgot one...

In Soviet Korea, grandmothers welcome our now-formerly AIM-using petrified Natalie Portman-naked-in-hot-grits overlords.

Or something.

p

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Re:congrats (Score:5, Funny)

by addaon ( 41825 ) writes: <addaon+slashdot.gmail@com> on Friday December 10, 2004 @04:26AM (#11049610)

ME TOO!

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Re:Closed Protocal (Score:2, Funny)

by batkiwi ( 137781 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @05:08AM (#11049721)

"shit"

Say it with me. It's not hard, and no one will die.

How does one pronounce $h!t?

"Hey guys, i'll be back in a minute. I've got to take an h-bang-t dollars."

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Maybe they did (Score:2, Funny)

by moshe_be ( 796621 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @05:28AM (#11049762)

UPDATE users SET suspended = 1; Oops, we forgot the where part!

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Re:AOL's fault? (Score:2, Funny)

by databyss ( 586137 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @05:44AM (#11049800) Homepage Journal

I can't comment on the growing MSN population though. I always forget to ask that when I lure children into my van with promises of free candy and ice cream.

THAT WAS YOU!?!?!?

I still feel dirty....

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Re:AOL Instant Messenger (one of the most widely u (Score:5, Funny)

by Lehk228 ( 705449 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @07:08AM (#11050045) Journal

the real old schoolers telnet into each other's machines and use a chat daemon.

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Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:2, Funny)

by Shai-kun ( 728212 ) writes: <jeroenc@jscwebdes[ ].nl ['ign' in gap]> on Friday December 10, 2004 @07:47AM (#11050164)

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

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Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:3, Funny)

by Major_Small ( 720272 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @09:22AM (#11050511) Journal
how about:
1. build an instant messaging platform
2. lead a revolution, littered with f*ups
3. find the customers stupid enough to keep using your network
4. if they're stupid enough to do that, they're stupid enough to use (read: pay for) AOL
5. profit!
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OMG THAT IZ WHY (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @09:32AM (#11050565)

BCUZ U DIDNT FRWRD TEH TRAKER MESSAGE 2 ALL UR CONTACTS, THEY SHUT OFF UR ACCOUNT!!!

heh, sure thing :P

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Re:IM'ing = ghey! (Score:3, Funny)

by NardofDoom ( 821951 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @10:06AM (#11050785)

The only reason I use AIM is to chat w/ my girlfriend
And this right here is how we know he's lying, children. ;-)

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Re:Thank God For That! (Score:2, Funny)

by WesG ( 589258 ) writes: on Friday December 10, 2004 @10:21AM (#11050900)

This is just part of the restructuring. I heard they had to layoff some of the users as a cost cutting move. :-)

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AOL (Score:3, Funny)

Thank God For That! (Score:5, Funny)

Doh (Score:5, Funny)

OMG LOL (Score:5, Funny)

AIMs (Score:5, Funny)

Various obligatory posts (Score:5, Funny)

congrats (Score:5, Funny)

In other news... (Score:5, Funny)

sadly... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:5, Funny)

Re:congrats (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Closed Protocal (Score:2, Funny)

Maybe they did (Score:2, Funny)

Re:AOL's fault? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:AOL Instant Messenger (one of the most widely u (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Various obligatory posts (Score:3, Funny)

OMG THAT IZ WHY (Score:1, Funny)

Re:IM'ing = ghey! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Thank God For That! (Score:2, Funny)

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