AIM

did you do anything that would get you blocked?

Not that I know of. I usally stay signed online, and I signed off on a Friday night. When I went to sign back online on Saturday, I got the "sign on blocked" message

i dont know the answer to that but i have another question about aim. Can people tell when you look at their profile (not clicking on any links in the profile, but just calling it up)?

nope

hmmmm wrote:

i dont know the answer to that but i have another question about aim. Can people tell when you look at their profile (not clicking on any links in the profile, but just calling it up)?

stalker

This happened to me back in January. Tried to reactivate the account, nothing worked, ran around in circles on the AIM website for a while, gave up and opened a new account. Three weeks later I fire up a computer I hadn't used in a while and it tried to automatically log me in on the old account-and succeeded. No idea why this happened, but at least it probably isn't a permanent thing.

google it:

http://joi.ito.com/archives/2004/12/09/aim_account_suspended.html

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Dear .....

I understand from your recent e-mail that you are having difficulties with the AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) service.

This is a temporary problem with the AIM service and should be resolved shortly.

If you continue to have problems, please exit AIM and reboot your computer. After your computer has restarted, please try logging on again.

If you continue to experience problems with the service, please write back with the time and date each error occurred. Please be sure to send the exact error message you received.

This information will allow me to track down the problem quicker and get the issue resolved faster.

If you need assistance through telephone, you may call us at our toll-free number: 1-800-827-6364. Calling early in the day usually reduces the waiting time to speak to a consultant.

Nho D.

AOL Customer Care Consultant

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Hi, i am having the same problem with the aim account when i try to sign on, i actually deleted aim and i am still getting the response \\\\\\\"sign on blocked. Click for more details\\\\\\\". This has been occuring for the past 2 days for me and the last instance was now at 7:14 pst on 3/16/2005. A suggesting i think that would be helpful to is that the more info page just directs you to the aol.com main page and isn\\\\\\\'t very helpful what so ever.

thanks, elizabeth

you may have blocked yourself by accident or something, if you have your own name on your buddy list, i dont know why people do this, i guess to look like they have more friends or something...you may have blocked your name which would block you from getting on and seeing yourself on....(maybe?)

yeah thanks but that's not it, and its still blocking me from signing on. But then i have an AOL account and can sign on to that, but i would rather use aim why i just want to talk to people.

I am having the same problem and so is my mom. It has something to do with aol screennames on the same account and aim screennames. Mine's been blocked for 2 months and its such a pain. Don't try contacting AOL- they can't help you at all. And AIM doesnt even have a contact number! That is ridiculous.