AOL PROBLEMS! ANY ONE ELSE HAVING THIS?

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Every time I try to go to quotes ($) on 4.0 or market on 3.0 I get the waol has caused an error..... and then I go to the "This program has caused an illegal......" Both of course are followed by the blue screen of death.

I also cannot send BCCs as they send but are not blind. Th9s is on 4 different machines with aol versions, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. The only BCCs that I can send to others and keep blin, are to other aol subscribers. If they are a different ISP, and you have their e-mail address followed by (Their real name) it makes the whole bunch CC, not BCC. aol. told me to earase all the stuff behind their e-mail names and see if it worked better. Been 4 days now, no changes....jim

-- Jim Sharp (JIM4RLORD@aol.com), January 19, 2000

Answers

That really doesn't surprise me. AOL IS just one big error....followed by TBSOD. I had similar problems with my online office computer...finally gave up on AOL and went with bellsouth.net

Good luck. (You'll need all the luck you can get).

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), January 19, 2000.


Nope

Best wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), January 19, 2000.


The Force is with me all my days -- I never signed up with AOL.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), January 20, 2000.

Jim,

I can help you a little on the blind copy issue. I had a lot of problems with this too when I was using my AOL account to issue the NOVA Y2K newsletter. AOL keeps the list of blind copy adresses enclosed with parenthesis (). If anyone on your list is shown with their email address followed by their actual name in parenthesis (e.g., JGolter@aol.com (Jay Golter)), AOL picks up the closed paren mark and figures that is the end of the blind list. Everything afterwards is open copied. So carefully check your address file again to make sure that there are no parenthesis anywhere in it.

-- Jay Golter (JGolter@aol.com), January 20, 2000.


Jim, Your software has gotten messed up. Sounds as if you have to reinstall it.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), January 20, 2000.


AOL sucks ! Serves you right for using such a piece of garbage!

-- everyone-hates-me (gloom@doom.com), January 20, 2000.

Have you run a virus check lately? Isn't there a virus called aolhell? hmm sounds appropriate.

-- Cin (Cinlooo@aol.com), January 20, 2000.

Ever since I downloaded Aol 5.0 I have had nothing but troubles, getting kicked off the net at least every thirty min. Yesterday, I deleted 5.0, and am now back on 4.0 dont get booted off except about once every hr.

-- Notforlong (Fsur@aol.com), January 20, 2000.

Just got booted off, first time this morning, about one hour from sign on. They are regular I can say that. Takes about five to ten min to get back on. Lucky I have a whole lot of nothing to do, or I could become quite angry.

-- Notforlong (Fsur@aol.com), January 20, 2000.

AOL's a big choke in general... working in the IT field, it's interesting to watch the SMTP (Internet mail) servers send mail to the corners of the earth, and while everybody else's mail goes through right away, half the time AOL comes back with: "450 Error: aol.com: host down" ... which means the server can't connect to it. And to think AOL's gonna gut RoadRunner for it's own purposes... sigh. Of course, the merger hasn't happened yet; write your congressperson and the FTC.

-- Just (anotherbuckeye@columbus.org), January 20, 2000.


AOL is an ugly piece of crap. Notforlong, I too downloaded 5.0 several weeks ago. I had various problems. Uninstalled it the next day, and everything was back to normal...well, as normal as it gets with AOHell.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), January 20, 2000.

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