Should AOL'ers be banned from the Internet ?

[Wheatmaster]

it's called freedom.

 

[sillymofo]

This gives me an idea :lightbulb;

I'm gonna record the "You've got mail!" sound bite and make it my inbox mail received for Outlook..... muwwwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. :evil:

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: orky56
im an AOLer. thats right. im smart enough to use the internet but not smart enough to switch. acutally the real reason im still stuck on this darned thing is my sis likes her email address tooooo much. so yeah isp wont change meaning no dsl meaning connecting to the internet on a 56k modem at 24k. grrrrr. good thing college is the complete opposite..grrr..im done now!

Don't get your hopes up *too* much, a lot of colleges have intermittent speeds that can get pretty low when a lot of people are on, not to mention restricting access to certain sites & services.

Guess the exception can go for the young too, some can talk their technon00b parents into switching from AOHell, but some can't

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Good example: I op in an IRC channel. I'd noticed whilst chatting (yes, I use IRC for chat ) in another room that some guy kept popping in and cutting/pasting large blocks of conversations from other rooms until he (I'm assuming it was a he) was kicked. His Ident and Nickname kept changing every time, so banning by that was no good. Finally, someone banned him by part of his subdomain. (ABCDEFG.aol.com) Except not 10 seconds later the guy is back, and guess what, most of his subdomain was different. The only part that was the same was the first three letters, ACB. When ACB*.aol.com was banned it took out several people from multiple countries, including Australia, England and America.

I'm surprised you haven't banned *.aol.com ...I mean really, what AOL user knows anything about IRC? All you'll get is "WTF, HWO DOO U G3T WaRZZ ON THS ChNALL!!!!1``` LOL KTHXBYE ;-)"


As for the poll, the second question is biased...

there's no < 50

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: yukichigai
Good example: I op in an IRC channel. I'd noticed whilst chatting (yes, I use IRC for chat ) in another room that some guy kept popping in and cutting/pasting large blocks of conversations from other rooms until he (I'm assuming it was a he) was kicked. His Ident and Nickname kept changing every time, so banning by that was no good. Finally, someone banned him by part of his subdomain. (ABCDEFG.aol.com) Except not 10 seconds later the guy is back, and guess what, most of his subdomain was different. The only part that was the same was the first three letters, ACB. When ACB*.aol.com was banned it took out several people from multiple countries, including Australia, England and America.

I'm surprised you haven't banned *.aol.com ...I mean really, what AOL user knows anything about IRC? All you'll get is "WTF, HWO DOO U G3T WaRZZ ON THS ChNALL!!!!1``` LOL KTHXBYE ;-)"


As for the poll, the second question is biased...

there's no < 50

That's basically what AnandTech has done: AOL is banned by email and IP range. Some people are cut off, but I at the same time, I think we can agree that it has made for a cleaner forum with no one really suffering from the block. AOL is a haven for spammers and other looser types, and should be banned accordingly.

 

[KingNothing]

No, because I just signed up for an AOL free trial. Not much good if I can't get on t3h intarw3b.

 

[poopaskoopa]

I can't even figure out how they affect me, so I voted no. Your 2nd poll is stupid, so I didn't vote.

 

[Apathetic]

How can your IQ poll be valid when you don't have an option for < 50?

Dave

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: KirbsAw

Originally posted by: Amused
Elitism sucks.

You must not be part of the elite then

Hardly. I voted no.

Who could blame you, why would anyone vote to ban themselves?

Actually, InsightBB is my ISP.

Since 95% of everything I say on here is heavily laced with sarcasm, I would have hoped your detector would have been going off! Please recalibrate, I even had a smiley face.

 

[Fingolfin269]

AOL is pretty lame for my purposes but it does everything that the majority of internet users really want from the internet so what does it matter? Most of the bias in this thread is towards the small % of users who are annoying little pricks. Guess what? We have plenty of pricks using broadband also.

 

[AFB]

Why is this tread still getting bumped ?

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: Anubis
most of them somepeople have no other choice

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: KirbsAw

Originally posted by: Amused
Elitism sucks.

You must not be part of the elite then

Hardly. I voted no.

Who could blame you, why would anyone vote to ban themselves?

Actually, InsightBB is my ISP.

Since 95% of everything I say on here is heavily laced with sarcasm, I would have hoped your detector would have been going off! Please recalibrate, I even had a smiley face.

This damn place keeps making my detectors explode, violently. So I just quit using one.

 

[maziwanka]

hahahahahahah. the polls on ATOT are awesome.

i didnt need to select anything on the polls this time. i just clicked vote twice. hahaha