The troubles at AOL on which we've reported in recent weeks haven't gone unacknowledged by the staff at the company's Virginia headquarters. Indeed, we're told that the gallows humor brigade is at full march. Friends inside AOL tell us that the executive, who reports directly to Steve Case, has been overheard suggesting that the company should recycle the passing of the 5 million mark. Only this time, he says, in rueful reference to the company's pathetic subscriber retention rates, it can celebrate passing it again - on the way down. Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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