I know what the AJAX is, and I do feel it is the future, however I do also enjoy catering for users who don't have the ability to utilize such "new fangled toys"... You'd think something as simple as at least viewing posts wouldn't have to require js :x...

I have a solution, lets have an agent tracker ban IE from loading the new post page, shoutbox, quick reply, and everything else :x

Lets do it it. I already denied any new aol user from registering

been there, done that... though i banned ip classes vs email addrs...

I didnt want to go that far with it. It's there own fault if they want to view through AOL ;P

It was an abuse deterrant for us; we just banned their proxy ranges and where done with it ;)... thats a lotta banning!

Well cant do that yet since the owner of the site was using aol until today, and the other admin is on aol along with a few mods.When aol rejects emails from our site because it was over their quota, see ya later.

rofl, thats really sad, that AOL bans your site that you work at because the site staff are on aol and over quota...

Well with the members who have a bunch of watched topics, posts, users, etc and are set to get emails thats were the problem is. Aol received over 300 emails in a matter of minutes from our site. They consider that spam and they auto lock the domain for 24 hours. And when I told them the emails were subscription from my members, I was told basically oh well, wee will reopen you in 24 hours. So I got all the rejected emails from aol sent back to me on top of the sever emailing me saying the messages cannot be sent but will try every hour for the next 5 days. Man did that cause some back up in the mail system. So I am no longer taking registrations from aol

I figure you'd turn off all watched topics and post on your forum "all watched topic have been turned off, if you're an AOL user, please leave them that way due to abuse; if you're not an aol user you'll need to re-enable your watched topics."