# What's going on with AOL?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aol/294019>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 11, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aol/294019 "2005-03-11T14:27:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aol/294019/1 "2005-03-11T14:27:36Z")

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Every e-mail I’ve sent to an AOL address in the last three days, I’ve (sooner or later) gotten a message informing me that there was a delay in delivery. Will they go through eventually?

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**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aol/294019/2 "2005-03-11T17:33:40Z")

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I don’t have an answer for you, but I have a friend who uses Hotmail, and he’s been unable to send me mail at AOL (and received that message) for at least a week now. I don’t have any mail blocked, either. He sent me mail at my Yahoo! address, and it got there in seconds.

If anyone has a clue, I wish they’d lend it to us. Good luck!

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aol/294019/3 "2005-03-11T17:45:54Z")

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Hm, my main account is at MSN – maybe there’s a feud going on?

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**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-aol/294019/4 "2005-03-11T17:51:01Z")

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I have Hotmail, and sent three messages to different AOL users. I was informed they were all delayed the next day, and the day after that I was told they were not sent and would not be.

So I resent them. The next day I was told they were all delayed, but this time they went through after that because I received responses from all three.

I thought at first it was Hotmail because everyone’s been having so much trouble with them lately, but I think this time it’s AOL.