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    From poindexter FORTRAN@911:1415/0 to All on Sun Aug 10 08:10:31 2025
    AOL is decomissioning their dial-up service on September 30th, 2025. You
    last holdouts, it's time to get that DSL line set up!



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  • From esc@911:1719/0 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Aug 10 12:42:30 2025
    AOL is decomissioning their dial-up service on September 30th, 2025. You last holdouts, it's time to get that DSL line set up!

    End of an era! An era that's been over for at least 20 years, but I digress hehe

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  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Aug 10 23:51:08 2025
    AOL is decomissioning their dial-up service on September 30th, 2025. You last holdouts, it's time to get that DSL line set up!

    Whats the AOL project that offers the connect on some other server??? Together we can make sure these platforms NEVER DIE.



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    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)
  • From neva@911:1503/0 to paulie420 on Mon Aug 11 00:10:03 2025
    Whats the AOL project that offers the connect on some other server??? Together we can make sure these platforms NEVER DIE.

    Do you mean the AIM server?
    https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@911:1415/0 to neva on Mon Aug 11 08:51:49 2025
    neva wrote to paulie420 <=-

    Do you mean the AIM server?
    https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server

    Back in the early 2000s, my company used AIM for out-of-band incident management and most of our internal comms. We had a proxy server that
    acted like an AIM server, so if you were communicating with someone on
    the proxy list, the messages never went outside your network. It was a
    pretty cool solution for the time, since you could use one client for internal/external comms but keep your internal comms off of AOL's
    servers.

    That was the good side. The bad side was that you couldn't run a meeting without people constantly IMing friends and co-workers.



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    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (911:1415/0)
  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to neva on Mon Aug 11 18:35:54 2025
    Whats the AOL project that offers the connect on some other server??? Together we can make sure these platforms NEVER DIE.

    Do you mean the AIM server?
    https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server

    Yea, that one - is so cool... I've seen them show it off @ VCF. So cool.



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    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)
  • From paulie420@911:1503/0 to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Aug 11 18:38:56 2025
    Back in the early 2000s, my company used AIM for out-of-band incident management and most of our internal comms. We had a proxy server that acted like an AIM server, so if you were communicating with someone on
    the proxy list, the messages never went outside your network. It was a pretty cool solution for the time, since you could use one client for internal/external comms but keep your internal comms off of AOL's
    servers.

    Super cool - I was into Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve when I was still BBSing back in the day... once I found internet-enabled shell accounts @ my local University, that was the downfall of all of those for me. :P

    I've been 'sysoping' Unix/Linux systems ever since.



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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (911:1503/0)
  • From Sloop@911:1270/1 to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Aug 11 22:13:42 2025
    AOL is decomissioning their dial-up service on September 30th, 2025. You last holdouts, it's time to get that DSL line set up!

    i was surprised as i didn't even realize they still had dial-up

    well, i guess now's the time to try to catch some of these ex-AOL dialup customers!

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    * Origin: Byte ME BBS - bbs.byteme.social:2323 (911:1270/1)
  • From Sloop@911:1270/1 to Paulie420 on Mon Aug 11 22:18:34 2025
    Whats the AOL project that offers the connect on some other server??? Toget

    it was renamed to P3OL but i dont know how active it is now

    --- Renegade v1.35/DOS
    * Origin: Byte ME BBS - bbs.byteme.social:2323 (911:1270/1)
  • From spec@911:1607/0 to neva on Tue Aug 12 12:40:49 2025
    Do you mean the AIM server?
    https://github.com/mk6i/retro-aim-server


    I've had this running for a few months now for a specific group of friends nostalgic for AIM. It's solid!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: theoretically / mystic 1.12a48 (911:1607/0)
  • From esc@911:1719/0 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Aug 13 17:57:59 2025
    Back in the early 2000s, my company used AIM for out-of-band incident management and most of our internal comms. We had a proxy server that acted like an AIM server, so if you were communicating with someone on
    the proxy list, the messages never went outside your network. It was a pretty cool solution for the time, since you could use one client for internal/external comms but keep your internal comms off of AOL's
    servers.

    This is pretty clever.

    That was the good side. The bad side was that you couldn't run a meeting without people constantly IMing friends and co-workers.

    Nothing's changed, if anything it's probably worse now!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/02/26 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (911:1719/0)
  • From Sloop@911:1270/1 to Poindexter Fortran on Mon Aug 11 22:13:42 2025
    AOL is decomissioning their dial-up service on September 30th, 2025. You last holdouts, it's time to get that DSL line set up!

    i was surprised as i didn't even realize they still had dial-up

    well, i guess now's the time to try to catch some of these ex-AOL dialup customers!

    --- Renegade v1.35/DOS
    * Origin: Byte ME BBS - bbs.byteme.social:2323 (911:1270/1)
  • From Sloop@911:1270/1 to Paulie420 on Mon Aug 11 22:18:34 2025
    Whats the AOL project that offers the connect on some other server??? Toget

    it was renamed to P3OL but i dont know how active it is now

    --- Renegade v1.35/DOS
    * Origin: Byte ME BBS - bbs.byteme.social:2323 (911:1270/1)