full-disclosure - AOL refuses to help AIM users

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Message-ID: <BAY2-DAV24FKpRcTCi900001e62@hotmail.com>
From: rickupusa at hotmail.com (Rick Updegrove)
Subject: AOL refuses to help AIM users

----- Original Message -----
From: "ATD" <simon@...soft.com>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Cc: <toc@....com>; <abuse@....com>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:20 PM
Subject: [Full-Disclosure] AOL refuses to help AIM users

AOL does not care about AOL's paying customers.  What makes you think they
care about AIM users?

FYI:

If you have an old computer laying around with AOL installed and you give it
away to a poor family to help their children and one of those children
discover that AOL icon and click it, a message pops up saying "Would you
like to reactivate this screen name? (providing the password is stored - a
very common occurance)"  This means that anyone, including a your child can
simply click "ok" and YOUR credit card will begin to be billed each month
without your consent or knowledge.

If that is not bad enough, ANYONE can then "spin off" (an AOL term) another
account, which means YOUR credit card will then get double billed, one bill
for each account.

According to AOL this is "legal and acceptable".

When will people realize that AOL is not worth the effort and begin blocking
ALL AOL e-mail and proxy servers?