# Aol-sdmb

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [February 6, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251 "2003-02-06T17:56:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251/21 "2003-02-10T06:28:35Z")

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Aye! I’ve been having a blast, rereading posts I haven’t seen since 1997!

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> **Lynn Bodoni** teaches C & P:
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> First you take your mouse, position the cursor on the spot where you want to begin the quote. The cursor will look like a capital letter “I” when it’s in the part of the screen where you CAN copy and paste if you’re writing a letter. It will be an arrow in the subject field of a post. Hold down the LEFT mouse button, and drag the cursor to where you want to end the copied text. If this is more than one screen’s worth of text, then you have to go to the bottom of the screen, sorry. When you get to the end, let the mouse button go. The text you want to copy should now be highlighted in a different color. From here, there are three different ways to copy: …

🙂

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**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251/22 "2003-02-10T18:36:07Z")

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Obviously, my link is no longer needed. 🙂 But I was right, I did have the original board bookmarked…mine’s the same as **peri** ’s.

Good thing no one will figure out the old name I used for my posts… ::cackles evilly:: Because I can hide all of my ditzy moments from there!

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-sdmb/153251/23 "2003-02-13T20:07:21Z")

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OK, here’s a post from **TubaDiva** on the old board, giving the board’s own link-address:

> [@](#):
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> Subject: Re: SD web address?  
> Date: Wed, Dec 31, 1997 3:20 PM  
> From: TUBADIVA  
> Message-id: \<[19971231202000.PAA05731@ladder02.news.aol.com](mailto:19971231202000.PAA05731@ladder02.news.aol.com)\>  
> [[anyone know the Web address for the message boards? I always enter from Aol.]]
> 
> There’s no other way you CAN access the SD message board; there’s a firewall to keep you from entering any other way. Or so I have been informed.
> 
> That being said, here’s the Internet address: aol://5863:126/mB:59305
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> Good luck!
> 
> your humble TubaDiva

Obviously the link posted above, ending in 59300, is the one that goes there now, but my link was the “original link”, i.e., a link that I made in AOL at the time that the board was extant. How and when did it get moved?

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