Re: Will Mozilla download Netscape Webmail for offline reading

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On 23 Jun 2001 11:54:32 -0400, DeMoN_LaG wrote:
> > OF COURSE IT'S FACT!  But this fact doesn't make a very good excuse for why
> > there isn't an AIM client in Maozilla.
> This has absolutely nothing to do with AOL and Mozilla.  Other people 
> have made clients that were AIM compatible.  Unfortunately, they were 
> all blocked.  As soon as any client becomes popular, AOL blocks it. 
> It's their network.  They technology.  They control it.  Let's see MS 
> incorporate an AIM client into IE (great, now I'll have an AIM client 
> integrated into my OS).  How long before AOL blocked it?  A few days?  A 
> week?
In all fairness, gAIM is an AIM compatible program that AOL has not gone
out of their way to block.  Why? There are many speculative answers.
I'm sure that JTK would have you believe that it is due to AOL "running
the show".  Personally, I don't know why they haven't.  However, the
fact remains that they have gone out of their way to block many of the
other clients that have had this capability.

Jamin W. Collins