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To: Harry Larson who wrote (1393)2/4/1997 12:30:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins   of 13594
 
RE > AOL SCANING MAIL
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.95.970127161434.14757J-100000@huitzilo.tezcat.com>,
> Adam Bailey <adamb@tezcat.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Mimi Kahn wrote:
> >
> > > Threads meander. It is the nature of threads to meander.
> >
> > I'm not talking about threads meandering here. I'm talking about a 90
> > degree turn.
> >
> > 1. Original post - asks if AOL scans outgoing mail for TOS.
> > 2. I reply, saying it doesn't.
> > 3. DAwn replies, contradiciting me and asking if staff reads email as a
> > joke.
> >
> >
> > This is hardly a meander.
> >
>
> Interesting - from scan to read is a 90 degree turn.
>
> One of the aol users that subscribes to a genealogy mailing list noted
> that some of her incoming mail was arriving with 'additions' from aol
> touting the latest version of crapware. How does aol know which piece of
> mail to desicrate if they don't scan the damn stuff?

Yup, this is something new. When people get mail from xAOL 3.0 but aren't
using AOL 3.0, they'll get a message suggesting they upgrade to the newest
version. This message is an automated thing, added to mail that contains
HTML or formatted text.

On one hand, I kinda find this message annoying. On the other hand, the
message lets me know that there may be embedded hotlinks that I need to
know about, so I re-read the mail in 3.0. I haven't decided yet my overall
opinion on whether or not this is good.

--
Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| "Do not take life too seriously;
adamb@tezcat.com | you will never get out of it alive."
adamkb@aol.com | - Elbert Hubbard
Finger for PGP | tezcat.com
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Just what I picked up on usenet
Jim
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