[64447] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Fri Oct 24 00:37:34 2003
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:35:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0310240006400.12836-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> Without notice AOL has been modifying the operating system settings of
> users with AOL software installed on Windows computers. Although
> complaints about Windows' Messenger pop-up spam continue to grow, few
This is a nice thing, but I recall some meeting with AOL Lawyers in which
this topic was raised... the end of the discussion happened when they
decided they couldn't just arbitrarily alter a users' computer if that
alteration wasn't restricted to their software package.
I wonder what changed their minds? Or... maybe I'm just misremembering
things, it was over a year ago :(
-Chris
