Yes. This is primarily becouse they are only using a small subset of
the aim.exe to provide the checksum capabilities, and all current AIM
clients can handle this 'feature'. In the future, however, they do have the
capabilities to check virtually any file that is distributed with AIM and
request a checksum. Basically, AIM for Linux has these limited checksums
most likely inside of it. Or they use a seperate checksum table for the
different clients..
AOL is tricky with things related to AIM. Remember how they stopped
MSIM? They purposly used a buffer overflow in their clients to identify
them.. 8)
And for the record, the existing checksums that they have been using
have been discovered, and current libfaim applications can now use them as
well.. :-)
From: "Greg Kettmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: AOL and AIM on Linux
> "AIM for Linux is not blocked. We have blocked Gaim and Jabber (against
my
> wishes) but never our own client. In fact, with in the next few weeks we
are
> planning on releasing another build of AIM for Linux. As of right now, we
do
> not have a version of AOL that runs on Linux. Even using WINE, AOL will
not
> run on a Linux platform. However, using WINE you can run our Windows
client
> on Linux. It is too bad that people don't actually check out the garbage
> that they end up posting. "
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