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but the old servers still worked until the AOL outage 2 days ago.

So that explains why my dad's email suddenly couldn't send outgoing messages (the configuration, for years, was outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net with normal password). After what felt like an hour, what worked was changing it to smtp.mail.yahoo.com and using OAuth.

I have one of those "annual plan, billed monthly". How the hell do I figure out when I initially signed for it? Along the way, I got two free months for getting a Logitech mouse, does that change my annual month?

Id like to see a system where judging those who have supposedly done wrong is done almost entirely by the community, not the government. Government/security forces (including police) intervention should be a last resort.

I'm sure all those children abused by priests will agree with you.

Ugh, Packard Bell. Being our first computer, we had no idea that Navigator program was pointless until months after. And I think it was another year before we realized it was capable of true color resolution (It shipped with 256 colors as the default).

"Simple" "Safe" "Private": Marketing buzzwords without any proof or a reputation.

No idea who this person is. Could be some 15 year old scammer in Florida. Could be a billionaire heir in London. No contact information. The domain registration is hidden.

What is this "product" solving that is not much different from a shared Google Doc?

Moon 2 years ago

We used to have those educational multimedia CD-ROMs back in the '90s. Look up Microsoft Encarta 97 on YouTube.

It's not about skipping stops, it's about the amount of eminent domain you'd have to do to eliminate curves thru Connecticut's oldest and richest suburbs.

Which is why proposals to route it via Long Island and building a 16-mile tunnel under Long Island Sound get consideration.