DeMoN LaG wrote: > > 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:
Great! So you're not an AOL subscriber? > 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? Nope. Nor will I ever, seeing as I completely don't understand the attraction of "Instant Messaging(tm)". If I want to talk to somebody "Instantly(tm)" I'll call them on the phone. > 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. So you should use this Trillian then, no? > Thus, AOL pays money > for bandwith and networking expenses for their AIM network, Ah, yeah, make that: "AOL's suckers I mean subscribers pay money for..." > and they > don't get money from advertising because no one uses the AIM client and > AOL gets screwed out of money. Sounds like a pretty good arrangement to me. Tell me, can I use this Trillian with its no-ads if I'm an AOL subscriber? Oh, no, they want to pump ads at me there too, don't they, even though I'm paying for the service? > 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 No, it's like saying it's OK to charge both the advertisor and the advertisee for ads, and to prevent the advertisee, who is paying to recieve the ads either way, from choosing to not see them. But hell, works for the cable companies, right?
