A curious thing happened to me this morning. I logged on on the laptop to Yahoo Mail and my computer announced a message that AOL had some updates for me and would I like to download them now. Since it was free and I know those people go to a lot of trouble to make things better for their customers, I clicked "yes". It proceeded to download the updates. When it finished, it told me that I had to turn off my computer and restart, which I did. Well, I came back in to Yahoo via SpeedFactor and checked my emails, etc., then thought "I'll just go check out what AOL changed for me." I went to the AOL main page and it always comes up with my name "julcash1" and then I put in my password. Well, lo and behold, it came up "pgaries1" and I don't have Phylllis' password. I put in my password, and of course it told me that was invalid. Rather than call up Phyllis and ask her what her password was and since I didn't really want to check her email, anyhow, I just signed in as a different user and it all worked out just fine. Now, what in the world? I don't even have Phyllis in my AOL address book. However, she is in my Yahoo address book. But, then I have over 300 addresses in my Yahoo address book and many, many of them are AOL. Can any of you tech folks explain?
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Comments (2)
She must have used your laptop to check her e-mail at some point. The updates probably weren't related to that though, they were just part of a regular AOL update.
Posted December 9, 2005 10:41 AM
The two events were not related, but they just seemed related. The updates triggered you to go to AOL. AOL always defaults to the last user to log in, which must have been Phyllis.
Any AOL user can use any computer with AOL on it. (Just like any Yahoo mail user can use any computer that has a browser.)
Posted December 9, 2005 10:51 AM