Subj : We love AOL
To   : Amcleod
From : Finnigann
Date : Mon Oct 30 2000 05:40 am

A>RE: Rlogin
A>BY: Segfault to Finnigann on Sun Oct 29 2000 08:43 pm

A>Because any SysOp worth his salt would delete SPAM immediately and kick
off the
A>spammer.  But on the internet, the only goal of the latter-day
SysOps (IOW the
A>ISPs) is to make money and maintain maximum distance
from any activity.

A>The AOL's of this world want to have maximum users creating maximum revenue
A>while pressing their hands to their hearts and saying "_We_ aren't responsible
A>for the SPAM that AOLers generate!"
          
What a can of worms this can be...

Didn't AOL have it's root with Qlink for the Commodore? I seem to recall
getting interested in modems are that time just as AOL was bursting onto
the scene. I wanted some software from Qlink to get online with and the
packet I got back had PC software (useless to me then) from AOL...
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