[Eric in the Ozarks]

You know the jig is up when your key doesn't work.

[Who dat?]

Colburn was locked out of his office on Friday at the company's Dulles headquarters…

The other issue is whether he was under contract with them. It isn’t that unusual.

Our COO was ushered out the door once. He spent the remaining three years of a five year contract sitting at home while collecting full pay and benefits plus a percentage of sales from products.

Sort of an expensive termination, IMO, but it’s a good gig if you can get it I suppose.

[capt. norm]

We all knew that AOL was doomed to failure. You don't prey on your customers like that and survive in the long term. The only question was "when?".

They have done everything on the list of "How to Rip-off Your Customers" and some of their lemmings are starting to catch on. They had to know that this was going to happen at some point in time, but hopefully, after they had reaped their harvest of $$.

There are websites devoted to dealing with AOL abuses. How long did they think they could get by with it?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Maybe Doug from Upland can do a parody on the old Kingston Trio song about the "Tiajuana Jail" Just send our mail, to the Club Fed Jail?

[martin_fierro]

And Mr. Colburn discovers what most of us already knew:

AOL SUCKS.