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Posted by: ws91420 Dec 7 2004, 06:36 PM

Has anyone who runs AIM without having AOL run into any problems? Went to log on and my account was suspended.

Posted by: Aaron Cox Dec 7 2004, 06:38 PM

never had a problem

Posted by: SirAndy Dec 7 2004, 07:12 PM

nope, use it all the time ...

my AIM account has nothing to do with a AOL dialup-account, which i don't have.
i don't see how the two could be related ...

Andy

Posted by: smrz914 Dec 7 2004, 08:30 PM

Only think i can think of is if you had an AOL account (like dialup service) and you canceled it. AOL won't let you use the same screen name.

Posted by: GWN7 Dec 7 2004, 08:42 PM

Mine works fine.

Posted by: ws91420 Dec 7 2004, 08:49 PM

They've blocked my account. No e-mail as to why. No e-mail address on the AIM website to contact them. To quote Charlie Brown "arrrrgggghhhh!"

Posted by: GWN7 Dec 7 2004, 08:56 PM

You must have been bad

Posted by: dlo914 Dec 7 2004, 08:59 PM

create a new AIM sn account?

Posted by: ws91420 Dec 7 2004, 09:38 PM

Yeah I created a new account but I don't ever use it very much to be bad.

Posted by: markb Dec 7 2004, 10:01 PM

My stepson got on one of AOL's chatrooms & used foul language. They suspended all of us who were on the account. Even the AIM I use thru netscape. I had to call them up & promise to have a talk with him before they'd turn us back on.

Posted by: MattR Dec 7 2004, 10:06 PM

Sounds ilke the 914 club

Uh oh, Im gonna get reamed now.

Posted by: ws91420 Dec 7 2004, 10:52 PM

No one else is on my AIM signon. AIM.com had no e-mail address for contact. Basically I'm taking back my toy w/o explaining it to you. Also AOL laid off 700 people from their HQ in Dulles just recently due to lost membership. Duh I wonder why.

Posted by: cnavarro Dec 8 2004, 06:01 AM

I've had the same aol screen name "Galileo187" since I was 10 years old (or was it 8) and have had the actual AOL service on and off, but not in the last 6 years (at the very least). I'm sure that's not the reason you were kicked off. My guess is that they couldn't verify your email address and then put a hold on the account.

Charles Navarro
LN Engineering
http://www.LNengineering.com
Aircooled Precision Performance

Posted by: Part Pricer Dec 10 2004, 05:54 AM

You are not alone. Supposedly all will be fixed by Monday.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1738245,00.asp

Posted by: skline Dec 10 2004, 08:28 AM

You're not missing anything, AOL SUCKS!!! I had someone hack my username and so I changed my password. Then since I have a severe case of CRS, I couldnt remember my new password. Since I had the same screenname for the past 10 years, the email address was from a long time ago and I cant get it resolved and they wont let me have it back. So when I created a new screenname, I put in my current email address. The next day I started getting about 10 spam emails a day. They sell your email address. I shut down that email address and created a new one. I wont use them for anything again. I hope they go out of business.