Comments on: OSW priceless, AOL worthless http://rhftech.com/blog/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/ Technology for non-geeks Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: RHFtech Help Desk (and more) » AOL redeemed itself http://rhftech.com/blog/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/comment-page-1/#comment-75 RHFtech Help Desk (and more) » AOL redeemed itself Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:27:08 +0000 http://rhftech.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/#comment-75 [...] am tardy in my follow-up to my previous post wherein I blogged about AOL blocking a client’s site, opticalshopofwestport.com, from appearing on any computer using AOL’s ISP [...] [...] am tardy in my follow-up to my previous post wherein I blogged about AOL blocking a client’s site, opticalshopofwestport.com, from appearing on any computer using AOL’s ISP [...]

]]> By: Marah Marie http://rhftech.com/blog/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Marah Marie Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:49:23 +0000 http://rhftech.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/#comment-61 I'd love to see the new post... :) I’d love to see the new post… :)

]]> By: Richard http://rhftech.com/blog/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Richard Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:13:25 +0000 http://rhftech.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/#comment-60 <a href="#comment-227" rel="nofollow">@Marah Marie</a> This is not a dialup issue as I have a fast connection, 30+Mbps down/5+Mbps up, where I tested and recreated the issue. I will be blogging about a call I had from AOL, yesterday. They confirmed that they had blacklisted the server's IP address, not the domain, but the IP address. They have resolved the issue. @Marah Marie
This is not a dialup issue as I have a fast connection, 30+Mbps down/5+Mbps up, where I tested and recreated the issue.

I will be blogging about a call I had from AOL, yesterday. They confirmed that they had blacklisted the server’s IP address, not the domain, but the IP address. They have resolved the issue.

]]> By: Marah Marie http://rhftech.com/blog/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Marah Marie Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:20:27 +0000 http://rhftech.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/#comment-59 I've written a bit about this in the past (you used to be able to find related articles on my blog under the tag "aol proxy servers" but I deleted that tag for some reason - so I need to restore it). AOL *does* cache the Internet - and so they have the ability to filter out websites for anyone using the client-side software. I've argued with people who work for AOL who claim I'm overstating the extent of it but I'm probably not. My only question, in this particular case, is with one portion of the error message which says, "...or the request timed out waiting for a response". Any chance the website loads so slowly that on AOL dial-up it simply times out? Did you ever try to reproduce the error on a dial-up connection? I’ve written a bit about this in the past (you used to be able to find related articles on my blog under the tag “aol proxy servers” but I deleted that tag for some reason – so I need to restore it). AOL *does* cache the Internet – and so they have the ability to filter out websites for anyone using the client-side software. I’ve argued with people who work for AOL who claim I’m overstating the extent of it but I’m probably not. My only question, in this particular case, is with one portion of the error message which says, “…or the request timed out waiting for a response”. Any chance the website loads so slowly that on AOL dial-up it simply times out? Did you ever try to reproduce the error on a dial-up connection?

]]> By: Malcolm http://rhftech.com/blog/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Malcolm Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:22:45 +0000 http://rhftech.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/optical-shop-of-westport-priceless-aol-worthless/#comment-58 AOL truly is the worst thing going in major interwebby companies AOL truly is the worst thing going in major interwebby companies

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