# I think AOL just smacked me upside the head with another "suck ball."

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 19, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-aol-just-smacked-me-upside-the-head-with-another-suck-ball/156204 "2003-02-19T20:44:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-aol-just-smacked-me-upside-the-head-with-another-suck-ball/156204/1 "2003-02-19T20:44:32Z")

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First, you no doubt ask, _why in the hell do you still have an AOL account?_

Answer: Hell if I know. About three to five times a year, AOL proves useful to me in some fashion, like when my office e-mail goes down the tubes or I need to do some research on a computer that has otherwise password-protected Internet service. Once or twice I’ve fixed friends’ computers by cranking up my grungy old AOL dial-up account and downloading the patch that fixes the driver that screws up the high-speed Intenet service which requires the patch which can’t be downloaded because the driver is screwed up…

It’s not worth it, I’m certain of that. But I’m allowed a few vaguely embarassing excesses in my life, like a car that looks like a feminine pad but couldn’t carry ten boxes of tampons in the trunk. And, I suppose, AOL.

Today, however, just might be the last straw.

Recently, AOL’s web-mail included a “revolutionary” new feature which actually lets me report spammers _and_ block them. I like imagining some spammer banging his fists on the table and screaming, “l\<3r535 40l h4z f0!l3l) m3 464!n,” then taking a long pull from a nippled bottle of warm milk.

Unfortunately, I get between fifteen and twenty spam mail messages a day, and I haven’t cleaned house in nearly a week. Just as I began to approach the magic 100 number of reported and blocked numbers…

…I was kicked off. My account is now invalid, and I have a sneaking suspicion as to why.

I think it might be because _I spammed the AOL server with the effing spam I’m trying to report!_

Now I’m not saying that _is_ what happened, I’m just saying that I _suspect_ that’s what happened. But I’ll tell you this: if that is what AOL just did to me, I’m through with them for good, because that’s just too damned dumb even for me.

We’ll find out soon, AOL. I hope I’m not giving you the benefit of the doubt.

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**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-aol-just-smacked-me-upside-the-head-with-another-suck-ball/156204/2 "2003-02-19T22:29:29Z")

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Dude, what kind of car do you drive?

:: mind boggles ::

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**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-aol-just-smacked-me-upside-the-head-with-another-suck-ball/156204/3 "2003-02-19T23:15:31Z")

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    - Mazda Miata? Or the new one kind of like it, I forget the name right off…?  
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