As far as getting into your local AOL servers, I'm clueless, but I do know that the AOL servers ping their users regularly(especially dial-up)...and if they ping an IP that isn't registered(one that hasn't authenticated)...well, you know what happens...BOOT! Your only recourse would be to steal an account...which is illegal. Sorry, but I feel your pain, as I am also an AOHell tool.(but not for much longer...damned landlord) And now that AOL has aquired ICQ(Mirabilis) and (that other company that I can't remember at the moment)...imagine the logfiles that they keep...dangerous ground, as they say...

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