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Short Take: Gentle reminder, then disconnect, from AOL

To ease network congestion, America Online is reminding logged-on users every 45 minutes how long they've been online and asking them if they want to continue. If users don't respond in ten minutes, they are automatically disconnected.

Jeff Pelline Staff Writer, CNET News.com
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Jeff Pelline
To ease network congestion, is reminding logged-on users every 45 minutes how long they've been online and asking them if they want to continue. If users don't respond in ten minutes, they are automatically disconnected.