I’ve mentioned before that this site got a New York Times mention because of the idiots AOLers who keep commenting on this site. So far, that entry has gotten 177 comments, mostly from folks thinking I can cancel their AOL account (as much as I’d like to).
Occasionally I get little one-line comments through my e-mail form on the right side of this page to the affect of “cancel my aol acct, plz” or something similar. But I had one today that just floored me (parts of it removed for obvious reasons):
please cancel my aol account username [removed]
pasword [removed]
thanks
Just for giggles, I logged it using the user/pass the guy sent me into AOL Mail, and sure enough, the user/pass works and the guy has 213 unread messages, and apparently this guy sent this message to some body else, as he has a message in his inbox from AOL saying that “You recently changed the Parental Controls setting for one of the Screen Names on your account to give it Master Screen Name capabilities.” meaning that somebody is going to have some fun with the account.
I logged the hell out as soon as I saw that, but I’m just totally floored how stupid some people can be.
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Deja vu. I remember people wigging about the influx of AOLers when the service first opened itself up to let its users access the Internet a decade or so ago. Heh.
What’s this? I thought UtterlyBoring.com was totally associated with AOL and that all you had to do, Jake, was simply hit the magic button to cancel their account.
You should set up your Spam filter to automatically send an e-mail back to the sender saying “I’m not AOL, so bugger off” when ‘AOL’ appears in the body. 😛
Get a load of this post. Dude makes an innocuous post about going to see the Maury Povich show. People have been regularly commenting — thinking they’re talking to Maury — for three and a half years.
The longer it is there, the more people comment on it, the more google indexes it, the higher rank it gets on google, the more people find it.
World domination in 1 easy step. I have Yahoo people bugging me over here.
I have been amazed over the years at how many students leave their e-mail, AIM accounts, and even one time a bank account open on public lab computers and just … walk off.
Hey AOL…
Nah, I don’t want you to
cancel my account, but…
my cat’s been kinda sick,
and her litter box is WAY
stinkier than usual. Could
you send a tech guy over
to clean that up for me??
I understand that this is
not usually included in my
AOL service, but c’mon…
be a pal. Just this once?