I am tired of AIM telling me I am logged in from 2 places

i don't mind it telling me (it's confusing when you can be logged into one service multiple ways), but i do mind that it's a huge message and that it asks me to sign out. Maybe just a quick "Hi from AIM, just wanted to let you know that you're now signed into two account. Have a nice day."

Sometimes I get this message even when I'm NOT logged in from two places.

Hi karl,

Thanks for jumping in here! I have the same issue and also find it mildly annoying. For me it happens with a couple different scenarios:

1. I'm signed into my Gmail which also now supports AIM and then I launch Adium.

2. I've got Adium running on my MacBook and then log into my home desktop PC and launch my IM client there. Or vice versa.

I think making the messaging a little friendlier and more optional sounding would help a lot. If I'm aware I'm logged into AIM from two places I don't want to feel like I'm doing something wrong by not signing out of one of them. However, I do think it's a nice security courtesy that AIM informs you.

I get the "Signed-in in two places" message, but I don't know where the other place could be. I don't use AIM anywhere but through my laptop iChat app. It would be more useful as a security message if it could tell you what the other location could be: machine name, IP address or whatever.

AOL v.29a: Buddy's Revenge (http://is.gd/18dZ)

The AOLSystemMSG is entering pop culture! This is some kind of horror story based around our good friend.

I find this annoying too. Many times I leave my desktop machine logged in and hit the road and when I log in from my laptop, it pops up or I'll log in from my phone and get a message I have to clear right away. I wish I could block it.

At least give me the right to block it!
I don't need the AOLSystemMsg Notice, and it is the most annoying and for my purposes useless message i've seen in years.

Okay make it standard but let us block it...

I always get this message, and to my knowledge, I'm not signed in two places. I tried changing my password, and I still get the message.

Hi @Willie This too is a distraction to my work. I use Pidgin on my Win Desktop and Fring on my WinMo phone. And yes I am logged in twice but have no problem with this. The problem I have is with being reminded and getting bounced back from device to desktop with enabling and re-enabling AIM. Then I tried to actually do what it says to do which is IM back 1 and it logs me out automatically. Then I tried to enter 2 and it accepts this but comes back with the message that I am logged in more than once. Man...

I get this message all the time, and I'm not signed in in two places. It seems to happen when my internet connection is momentarily disconnected. This usually happens at work, on my laptop, when I'm on the office's wi-fi.

I am also faced with the same message. I understand the company is aware of this, could someone please fix it or tell us how to fix it.

It appears as if only one screen name from the overall account can be signed on at one time. It's not that you have signed on using your screen name somewhere and failed to sign off. It's simply that someone from your family is signed online, and it blocks more than one person from signing on at the same time. Please fix this ASAP AOL!!!

I also have this issue. I have an iphone client that stays logged in, so not only do I get the messages in both places (which is fine), I also get the systemMSGs.

Give me a "or press 2 if you never want to get one of these annoying, time-wasting notifications again."

I get this because I am logged into AIM through the gmail chat interface, as well as via Adium (all at the same computer).
I agree, let us block the damn thing.

Please kill this message. iPhone + macbook + AIM = frustrations.

I know, I know, I know!!! STOP TELLING ME. I get push notifications on my phone whenever i log into AIM on my laptop, and I have to launch the app to dismiss them.

Considering moving over 100% to facebook chat and google chat which are supported on both Adium and Beejive and do NOT waste my time with these stupid stupid stupid messages.

at LEAST let your more tech savey users disable the messages.

this is my dream:

* Your screen name (screenname) is now signed into AOL(R) Instant Messenger (TM) in 2 locations. To sign off the other location(s), reply to this message with the number 1. reply with 2 to disable these messages for your account. Click here for more information.

2

*are you sure? this is a security feature that blah blah blah...

yes

* notifications have been disabled for your account. to reactivate them at any time please send "1" to aolsystemmsg. thanks

If AOL wants to keep this for security reasons, perhaps a compromise would be "reply with 2 to disable these messages when the come from my MAC address". I.E. "Yes, I know I'm logged in from my iPhone and my desktop and google, but please tell me if someone logs in from somewhere else."

If that's too tough, I like Andrew's solution

I always get this message after changing from WIFI locations. And the Click here for more info, doesn't work as well. Very very annoying...

Reasonable idea - poorly implemented. There's no reason that this message should not be blockable or user configurable. No other IM client has this excessively annoying feature. I dont need more excuses to leave this IM system.

This is a good idea gone wrong. The place where AOL went wrong is where they do not let the user disable the message.

LISTEN TO ME AOL, YOUR NOT LETTING US DISABLE THE MESSAGE IS ANNOYING!

Sorry for all caps, but I'm trying to prove a point. For the causal user that doesn't use two computers, it's important for him to know if somebody else is on his name. For the crazy user that has three computers, GMail and an iPhone, seeing this message thirty times a day is no fun.

I say, if I block the user, keep him blocked. Alternatively, have a 'Disable' link that rides along with the message that, when clicked, takes me to a secure AOL site which allows me to disable the message after typing in my password.

I use aim all over the place. at work. at home. on my phone. so i know that i am going to get this message. its just annoying. i know it has its place. just not in my face. could we try something like "you are logged into a new location. do you want to add this new location to you trusted location? yes or no" give me the option to approve what devices, based on IP address or MAC address, I use regularly. So now I would only get this pop up when I login in to a computer for just a second. If I log on from a computer on my trusted device list then all is good and I don't get this warning. Its not killing me. But it's just so damn annoying having to delete the message everytime I log on. Twice actually. One on my mac and one on my phone. PLEASE FIX!!!

I agree completely. If i BLOCK a user, i expect it to be B L O C K E D. I do not want this stupid message coming back ever, if i press block. This is annoying as hell. I know it was created in good intentions, but the inability to turn it off if a crappy idea.

I have the same problem e.g. when logged in via iChat from a Mac and on IM+ on the iPhone which is a totally legit situation.
AOL should really offer a way to turn these messages off, they are annoying like the pest.

Ok this has become nothing but a b**chfest now, with everyone posting their own "me too". It's obvious there isn't going to be a solution, and it's up to AOL if we want any satisfaction.

So what's it going to be, AOL? I haven't heard any representatives respond in a long time. Not even a "we'll put it on the todo list".

I'm so annoyed by this I've resorted to writing an AppleScript, and setting iChat's Alert preferences to run it every time it recieves a Chat Invitation:

using terms from application "iChat"

	on received text invitation theText from theBuddy for theChat

		if name of theBuddy as string = "AOLSystemMsg" then decline theChat

	end received text invitation

end using terms from

Only messages from AOLSystemMsg are blocked by this. This solves it for me (running iChat under Snow Leopard). Hallelujah!

Thnx Robert, but that's a patch not a solution, i can't do this in Bejiive on my iPhone..

Even better that just disabling the messages would be a priority list.. prio 10 on your mac and prio 20 on your iPhone.. (if mac is on send to mac, if not send to iphone..)

Personally I just want to dump all "legacy" IM networks but few of my friends see the problems with these.. We should all go to something like Jabber (XMPP). It would be like using an open network with servers that will talk to each other, kinda like SMTP does for mail.