No more AOL News Message Boards after Feb. 9th?

[itzamirakul]

I just received an email from a friend I met some years ago on the aol boards. I finally had to leave those boards...it was TOO nasty for me. I haven't been there for over six months. Now from the email I understand that the News Boards will be discontinued. Anyone else hear this?

I guess if that really IS the case we will have to be on the look-out for a lot of new freepers for awhile at least.

Also, I am wondering if this is the BushCo's first step in trying to control online political communication.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Very interesting. I wonder where they're going to go?

[Momgonepostal]

2. I don't know about AOL news boards, but...

They've been making changes to other boards. Another I post on isn't getting deleted but is going to an entirely different format.

[Quixote1818]

3. lately negative posts about Bush have out done positive posts.

I have noticed that recently the number of negative posts about Bush out number the positive posts about 3 to 1. It use to be the other way around.

[FloridaPat]

4. Boards cost money. AOL is getting cheap. Too many people

leaving.

[UdoKier]

5. Could it be all those CD & DVD-ROMS they keep sending out...

in spiffy metal canisters?

[MisterP]

7. we got one addressed to "Dracula the Undead" with our address

[high density]

6. Last I heard they were ending the Usenet Newsgroups service

You can still access them at http://groups.google.com or through another Usenet provider like http://www.giganews.com