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this reminds me of when those AOL free trial account disks were all over the place. in many circles an AOL subdomain would get instabanned

Even the *.ipt.aol.com ban was needed because one AOLer would use the HOST.ipt.aol.com rdns to ban evade and ruin it for everybody.

Prodigy / CompuServe / Blue Light gang checking in

Prodigy, haven't thought about that in a lot of years, thanks for the memory tickle. Even with the painted-with-bricks interface.

GEnie was another that was kind of fun. And I still can remember my CompuServe number!