JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02 Feb 2002:
> Christ, this planet is populated with nothing but dumbasses I swear. > For whatever reason, you pay for AOL's "service". Ok, fine. So you > then think you should have ads pumped at you? You're paying for an > ad-pump service? > I don't pay for AOL's service: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp?aolperm=h http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp?aolperm=h Did you pay for AIM? I get AIM for free because at the top of my buddy list there is a little ad banner that I never look at. And there are a bunch of things that pop up and annoy me by default. Trillian doesn't have these. Trillian has no advertising at all. Thus, AOL pays money for bandwith and networking expenses for their AIM network, and they don't get money from advertising because no one uses the AIM client and AOL gets screwed out of money. That's like saying it's OK for people to just walk into my food store and just eat produce off the shelves, because we provide the service of selling food so you should be able to eat it for free. The logic doesn't hold water. In fact, it doesn't hold anything -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
