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Re: [Asrg] A New Plan for No Spam / Velocity Indicator

2003-04-28 18:40:35
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:57:32 -0400 
Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 12:29 PM -0700 4/26/03, J C Lawrence wrote:
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:43:35 -0700 Phillip Hallam-Baker
<Hallam-Baker> wrote:

Admittedly, it only works because AOL controls all the servers, but
that hasn't stopped any other proposals :-).

AOL has vigorously defended this service monopoly.  There are multiple
Open Source implementations of the AIM protocol server, but should any
particular site running one becomre more than trivially popular, AOL IP
blocks the server from their AIM network.

This isn't, or shouldn't be surprising, but is worth noting.

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J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu               He lived as a devil, eh?           
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