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AOL quietly changes Windows settings to combat pop-up spam
Anick Jesdanun, The Associated Press 2003-10-23

Even more annoying than junk e-mail are all the spam messages that "pop up" through a little-used feature in Windows. As part of its spam-fighting efforts, America Online has been turning off that feature for its customers without telling them.

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Still...why would they want it on to begin with? 2003-10-24
Anonymous
Still, I can't think of any reason a home user would want to have Messenger turned on. No one using AOL is going to be on a corporate LAN where Messenger is actually useful. The only reason people have it turned on is because Microsoft stupidly has it on by default.

I do think AOL could have av...

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