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Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

  • From: Christopher L. Morrow
  • Date: Fri Oct 24 00:40:00 2003 
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