Re: FN-FORUM What is actually wrong with AOL? (was Real One Player)

date posted 7th January 2003 23:08

> aol/time-warner and bound to start adding lots of copyright snooping
spyware
> in the near future.
>

specially since a lot of there annual advertisers contracts were up for
renewal
recently and there's an expected downturn there.

Darren

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Eckersall" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM What is actually wrong with AOL? (was Real One Player)


> > just send emails to millions of AOL address by guessing them. This is
the
> > same with any ISP.
>
> unless you have email addresses such [EMAIL REMOVED] or
> 'revolving_organs_of [EMAIL REMOVED] you'd be amazed at how little spam you get
> :D
>
> as for AOL, i generally dislike it in the same way i dislike windows XP -
> its candy, pure and simple. its whole target is the less web-savvy and i
> can imagine future versions being very intrusive on a pc since
> aol/time-warner and bound to start adding lots of copyright snooping
spyware
> in the near future.
>
> so i dislike due to part snobbery, part learyness.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Weaver" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:57 AM
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM What is actually wrong with AOL? (was Real One
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>
>
> > Raymond Stone wrote.....
> >
> > >The vast amount of spam I get on an account I do not make generally
> > >known. The only way the account email address could be known is from
> > >problems with aol security and aol refuse to explain how the details
> > >were leaked or do anything about it.
> > >
> > >Friends have also reported similar problems.
> >
> > You do not need to make an AOL address known! If I was a spammer I could
> > just send emails to millions of AOL address by guessing them. This is
the
> > same with any ISP.
> >
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