Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

["Christopher L. Morrow" <chris () UU NET>]

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