I'm hoping that when it reopens, it will be easier for us AOL users to access. Several months back I tried to access some of the other interesting areas on this web-site but was shut out because of my IPS. I did attempt to follow the instructions by going thru Yahoo but still was unable to access.
Sorry that you had problems back then, Miss Winthrop, but I think you might have been confusing two seperate AOL issues:
AOL wouldn't accept e-mail from the forum's old setup (to this day we're still unsure as to whether that was due to AOL's blocking of YaBB SP itself or our old host - and, of course, AOL was of no help whatsoever when I tried to get a straight answer from them
), so AOLers had to create a different e-mail address with Web based services like Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. in order to have been able to receive e-mail from us.
With the Members' Archive, there were security issues between the archive and the way IE worked within AOL, so we'd asked that AOLers bring IE up seperately from AOL. In other words, AOLers would have logged on to the service as usual, but instead of typing the forum's URL into the box on AOL's main screen or using an AOL favorite places bookmark, they would have had to bring IE (or almost any other browser) up in Windows or their Mac OS in order to get into the Members' Archive.
We're not sure if either of these requirements will continue to be the case with YaBB SE or our new host. But once registrations and the Members' Archive reopen, we'll certainly do our best to explain whatever process might be required of AOLers to gain access.