Question: Is AOL working for you guys?

[tblue37]

I have a free AOL account, but I have not been able to access AOL at all for the past two days. I get this message when I try:

The service you are trying to reach is temporarily unavailable - please try your request again. . . .

Does anyone here know whether problem is with my computer or with AOL?

[Phillycat]

1. You may be the last person to use AOL on earth.

[PeaceNikki]

2. This was my thought as well.

[tblue37]

8. I have several email accounts. One of them is on AOL, because

I started on AOL many years ago, and it seemed too much trouble to shift all my addresses and such. But AOL has been a pain in the butt for a long time. It's just that I am not computer savvy, so I didn't know how to migrate my address book to my Gmail accounts or to my Yahoo, Hotmail, Go-Daddy, and KU accounts.

Anyway, a few of my regular correspondents still use my AOL account, and I hate that I can't get at it at all now.

[Phillycat]

11. Okay, let's get you off of there.

That way we can all stop making fun of you. :)

I just looked through several how-to's, and this seems the most straightforward. Go do this as soon as you can get back into AOL, and come back and ask if you have any questions. You can PM me if you don't feel like opening yourself up to abuse. :hug:

http://journals.aol.com/adamkb/blog/entries/2004/05/07/tip-exporting-the-aol-address-book/148

Use the first option at that link. Good luck!

[tblue37]

12. Thanks. As soon as I can get back to my account there I will do that. n/t

[SteppingRazor]

3. No, but my stone tablets seem to be in order.

:P

[Phillycat]

4. We are terrible people.

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

5. If you're going to hell anyway, you might as well enjoy the trip.

But seriously, I do know plenty of people who use AOL, most of them having done so for years. Some people just like sticking with what they know.

[RebelOne]

13. I have had AOL for years.

I tried several less expensive ISPs, but they just didn't seem to work as well as AOL.

[DarkTirade]

6. What are you talking about? AOL has never worked...

:P

[DS1]

7. People still use that sack of shit?

wow

[hobbit709]

9. AOL works???

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. AOL was *made* broken

With the exception of following a few "DU this AOL poll" links, I haven't gone near it in a couple of years. It's fucked up my computer too many times. And that includes the bastard child AIM, which is missing a few chromosomes.

[AlCzervik]

14. America Off Line. I thught they went out of business.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. Emails to my friends on AOL are bouncing back

There's something going on.

[tblue37]

17. Thanks Proud2BLib.

I just wanted to know if the problem was with my computer or with AOL. This sounds like it could be an AOL problem, then. I was getting ready to go hunting for someone to let me use his or her computer to try accessing AOL on it.

Some of the comments about AOL on this thread were actually quite amusing (especially the one about the stone tablets), but I really was looking for needed information, not comedy routines.

[Carnea]

16. They still have AOL???? Wow that must be a last man on earth experience

going to AOL pages and groups.

[tblue37]

18. I still can't get onto AOL, so I tried googling to see if

others were having the same problem. Every message board I went to, when someone asked about problems with AOL, the person got the same smart ass responses--and no help. I still have no idea whether AOL is down or my computer is having a problem. It sure would be nice to know, but I don't know where to go to find out. Meanwhile, I don't know if people are trying to contact me through my AOL accoutn, and that really bites.

[crimsonblue]

19. Why are you using AOL?

Are you trapped in 1998 or something?

[tblue37]

20. As I explained above, I have a number of different email addresses

that I use for different things. When I abandoned my paid AOL account, I kept the free one, because I had an extensive address book, and a number of people knew me by that address. I am not computer savvy enough to feel that I could easily migrate all that info to a different account. I have accounts on Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, and Go-Daddy, as well as one on my university's server.

A couple of my tutoring students use my AOL account to contact me, as do some of my online friends whom I "met" many years ago, when AOL was still sort of state of the art.

I did finally manage a workaround that allowed me to access my AOL account, though. I went to their help page, logged in, and then used some of the links on that page to get into my account. Having finally gotten into my AOL account by that route, I can now access the AOL homepage by way of my bookmark. For two days there, I got nothing but a blank screen with an error message whenever I tried to use my bookmark to go to AOL or whenever I tried to use the Google link for the AOL homepage.

[grasswire]

21. I have an AOL account, and everything's working.

I've had it for twelve years or so. I'm getting and sending e-mail just fine.

I'm not apologetic. What's to apologize for? It's just an e-mail service.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Chat hosts

Especially... dammit, what was her name?



I swear they recruit them from the RNC's "Mentally challenged, even by our standards" office.

[grasswire]

24. hey, I was a chat host

Of course it was the FSZ and that was something exceptional. Good times, good times. As you know.

[Oeditpus Rex]

26. I meant the ones in Ccino

Wasn't that one's name Maida or somethin'? She had the personality of pencil shavings.

[grasswire]

28. one of the funniest nights of my Internet life...

...was the night in FSZ when I started "reading" to the room out of my classic copy of the Unexpurgated Kama Sutra. Rd was there, for one. I laughed sooooo hard. I'll never forget it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. I don't remember laughing a lot in the Zone

Mostly, I remember it being like GD: P.

[grasswire]

30. really?

that must be cuz you always left a little early

[Connonym]

25. hey now, I was a chat host back in the day

and you know you had it for me bad

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Only because you kept sendin' me nekkid pics

:P

[GRLMGC]

22. I can't access it either

Try googling AOL mail and try getting web access that way. That's what I do. I just can't get onto the AOL website.

[tblue37]

31. I have tried that, but it doesn't work for me either.

I was able to access it last night by doing a workaround through their help page, but today I can't access it again, so I am going to have to try what I did last night abd hope for te ebst.