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Re: AOL Terms and Conditions -- Revealed!

  • From: Derek Balling
  • Date: Sat Apr 28 15:53:45 2001 
At 3:31 PM -0400 4/28/01, Shawn McMahon wrote:

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:57:43PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:

 *NOT* going to agree to their 'terms'.  With the agreement of my laywer,
 I've posted the terms to which I was being asked to agree.

 	http://www.mailinglists.org/aol.html

It's official; AOL's lawyers are completely out of their minds.

That list should in and of itself be enough to allow committal for
72-hour observation.

They don't even follow all of those themselves.
Does anyone know if AOL has tried to impose those terms on "big names" (e.g., Listbot, yahoogroups, etc.)?

I can't picture a major competitor to AOL (such as Microsoft or Yahoo) agreeing to abide by the AOL TOS, among the many other ludicrous things in there.... :)

D

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