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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / January 2005OT Notice about aol-char, krissy, diane C anyone?
Did anyone else get this post? note date, just came 3 days ago, and last three days get the sanE post. Shirlawn Subject: Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005. From: BoardsAdmin@aol.com (BoardsAdmin) Date: 6 Dec 2004 12:00:00 GMT Please Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005. For members using AOL over a dial-up connection, you will no longer be able to access Newsgroups. If you have a separate high-speed connection, you can contact your broadband provider to see if they offer Newsgroups. Newsgroup services can often be accessed through a third party reader, such as Mozilla Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/). Alternatively, you can access Newsgroups via Google at http://groups.google.com/. We apologize for this inconvenience. ------------------- Headers -------------------- Path: tndist02!not-for-mail From: BoardsAdmin@aol.com (BoardsAdmin) Subject: Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005. Date: 6 Dec 2004 12:00:00 GMT Organization: AOL htp://www.aol.com MessageId: <200412061200.0000001@ttttt.aol.com> i did not get this email, shirlawn, however i have been unable to reliably get asa through aol for the past two weeks and have been using google groups, which i don't like but it's better than not being able to get it at all. aol is really shooting itself in the foot. i guess it may be time for me to leave it. diane Try this one, Diane. Clicking 'arthritis' gets ASA :-) http://www.talkaboutnetwork.com/ Hugs from Rosie  Signature"If you wanna get it done, you gotta fight for yourself" -- Meat Loaf, Bat Outta Hell II > i did not get this email, shirlawn, however i have been unable to > reliably get asa through aol for the past two weeks and have been using [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > diane Shirlawn, where did this message come from? I haven't gotten anything at all from AOL and haven't seen this before either. Anne AAC/AAF/AFBV62.0844.AZ http://www.tckworld.com/opfoot Anne, I do not know. It is beginning to bug me. There were 4 of the same posts today when I signed on. What does the <B> at the beginning and end mean? Should I answer it? Shirlawn >Anne, I do not know. It is beginning to bug me. There were 4 of the same >posts today when I signed on. What does the <B> at the beginning and end mean? > Should I answer it? > >Shirlawn Do you have any other saved emails from AOL? if so try comparing the headers of those with those of these. Look closely at the message ID bit, ie do you "know to be from aol messages" have a message id like MessageId: <200412061200.0000001@ttttt.aol.com> does the bit after @ end in ttttt.aol.com or is it something different? -- Andy >>Anne, I do not know. It is beginning to bug me. There were 4 of the same >>posts today when I signed on. What does the <B> at the beginning and end mean? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >does the bit after @ end in ttttt.aol.com or is it something >different? also note this bit: Organization: AOL htp://www.aol.com I would have thought it should be http://www.aol.com not htp? -- Andy >. What does the <B> at the beginning and end mean? >Shirlawn It's simply hyper text mark up language [hmtl] for making the text bold <B>Hello </B> read in a html rather than plain text email would look bold. -- Andy > Anne, I do not know. It is beginning to bug me. There were 4 of the same > posts today when I signed on. What does the <B> at the beginning and end mean? > Should I answer it? > > Shirlawn If it's <B> at the beginning and </B> at the end, it's just html code for bold type. Carole >Did anyone else get this post? note date, just came 3 days ago, and last three >days get the sanE post. I did some quick searchin on the internet and several other groups have picke this post up, AOL makes no mention of it on their website. There seems to be conflicting information. Someone on AOL should call support and ask. Here are some snippets I pulled up from a newsgroup search. (posted Jan 20): (quote) My chat with AOL Tech Support: AOLTechJCD: I understand that you heard or read that Newgroups on AOL will be discontinued. That information is a scam. That is definitely not true, Karen. Newsgroups will always be a feature on AOL and if ever that will happen, we see to it that we officially inform all our members about it. (end quote) Here is another copy of a post: (quote) REPEAT: The official word from AOL is that this is a scam. There are no plans to discontinue newsgroups, and if they ever make a decision to change that, you will receive an e-mail notification from them -- they would not post it to newsgroups. Further, AOL mail reports that BoardsAdmin is a non-existent address. (end quote) SignatureVisit my website: http://www.mzuschlag.com >>Did anyone else get this post? note date, just came 3 days ago, and last three >>days get the sanE post. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > >(end quote) I agree with Mary, you can check out usenet coverage of this on several newsgroups here: http://makeashorterlink.com/?U1D812B4A -- Andy Thanks Mary Z, Andy, everyone. I didn"t think it was legit. Shirlawn shirlawn, you can forward that email to tosgeneral@aol.com. i've had a few "aol" scams lately and just forward stuff to that address. they get back and tell you if it was from them or not. regarding the newsgroup issue tho--i called several different aol tech people when aol started having problems with asa and they didn't even understand what a newsgroup was. i finally gave up. diane It seems to me I heard somewhere that Shirlawn wrote in article <20050121114637.06767.00000055@mb-m20.aol.com>: >Did anyone else get this post? note date, just came 3 days ago, and last three >days get the sanE post. >Shirlawn >Subject: Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early >2005. >From: BoardsAdmin@aol.com (BoardsAdmin) >Date: 6 Dec 2004 12:00:00 GMT >Please Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005. >For members using AOL over a dial-up connection, you will no longer be able to >access Newsgroups. If you have a separate high-speed connection, you can >contact your broadband provider to see if they offer Newsgroups. Newsgroup >services can often be accessed through a third party reader, such as Mozilla >Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/). >Alternatively, you can access Newsgroups via Google at >http://groups.google.com/. >We apologize for this inconvenience. > ------------------- Headers -------------------- [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >Organization: AOL htp://www.aol.com >MessageId: <200412061200.0000001@ttttt.aol.com> Shirlawn, I didn't look at your message in detail when I first downloaded it, but I'm almost certain it's fake. First, other AOL users should have received the same thing if it really came from AOL. Second, I would think the media would be making a big thing out of an AOL move of this sort. Third, the headers look odd. The Path header looks to be illegitimate. The URL in the Organization header is broken, and so is the domain in the Message ID header (the legitimate form is Message-ID), and legitimate AOL messages have real information between the "@" and the "aol.com", where these headers have only "tttt." There have been similar false messages in the past, generated by robots programmed to imitate real messages and to carry disruptive or disturbing information like this one has. SignatureDon Old age is when you start saying "I wish I knew now what I knew then." |
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