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Re: AOL Terms and Conditions -- Revealed!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Bradsby)
Mon Apr 30 00:27:12 2001

Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:24:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bryan Bradsby <Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us>
To: Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
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> I can't picture a major competitor to AOL (such as Microsoft or
> Yahoo) agreeing to abide by the AOL TOS...

Why not?

As soon as your packet enters AOL, it must comply with their TOS, or they
may drop it.

> +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+
> | dredd@megacity.org  | "Conan! What is best in life?"          |
> |  Derek J. Balling   | "To crush your enemies, see them        |
> |                     |    driven before you, and to hear the   |
> |                     |    lamentation of their women!"         |
> +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+

-bryan bradsby
Texas State Government Net





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