Re: Gamespy (unregistered) and AOL?

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From: Adam Leinss
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 05:18:02 GMT, The...@stopspam.net (Todd) wrote:
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>Or did his install go bad, or did I maybe delete something when I did
>the install months ago?

Going with the general consensus of the other two posters, your nephew
needs to switch to a real ISP.  AOL is *not* an ISP, but a content
provider.  Their backbone is severely lagged (probably from serving
all of that GUI content!) and banned from most of the Internet (jump
on one of the IRC networks and you'll see what I mean).

Adam
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into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse
on you." (1 Peter 4:4)

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