*** Buddy rights: 200 buddies allowed, 750 watchers allowed."ĪOL is logging into our user accounts to determine whether or not our software is "unauthorized" Bloody bastards. *** Connecting to AIM as "AngelPiccadilly", attempt #1. *** Will attempt 10 connections with 60 second intervals. *** Reconnecting to AIM as "AngelPiccadilly". *** See USER_._NEW_LOGIN.html for more details. *** Someone else has logged onto your AIM account from another computer. *** Fatal error while sending packet (10054). " *** "Md" signed on at Fri Feb 15 06:38:07 2002 and is currently away. I was able to connect to Trillian boards. Trillian has more features than AIM, and it takes less RAM then running MSN, ICQ, AIM, and yahoo at the same time. There's no reason for this, and now they've only gained more of my ire by sending a message that says I should get their bloatware. This isn't a security violation or an ad hoc client or a hack - Trillian is a major competitor. I also don't buy the ad-blocking "ethics" argument because there are lots of hacked DLLs that suppress ads in AIM quickly and easily. It just doesn't look good for AOL from this perspective. SO WHY ARE THEY BLOCKING TRILLIAN, AND NO OTHER AOL CLIENT? In fact, this seems anticompetitive and I would think the FTC would be putting them under scrutiny for their actions. Principle - AIM is supposed to have an open protocol. Why should I have four different IM clients?ģ. Convenience - you have four IM clients in one, so if some of your friends don't use one service, they'll likely use the other. It's also important if you're like me and still run on a K6/200 with 48MB of RAM. With all of those wonderful AOL programmers you'd think they'd get just a litte more efficient in producing that bloated POS they put out. Smaller memory/HD footprint - something that's half the size of AIM both on the HD and in memory handles all four messaging clients.
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