JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03 Feb 2002:
>> I don't pay for AOL's service: > > Great! So you're not an AOL subscriber? No. If you had any idea how to check my headers, or read my signature, you'd see I'm an @home user who's ISP is transitioning from Comcast@Home to Comcast High Speed Internet > >> http://www.aim.com/get_aim/win/latest_win.adp?aolperm=h >> http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp?aolperm=h >> >> Did you pay for AIM? > > Nope. Nor will I ever, seeing as I completely don't understand the > attraction of "Instant Messaging(tm)". If I want to talk to > somebody "Instantly(tm)" I'll call them on the phone. Nice. I don't call people on the phone just randomly chat while I'm getting ready to play Tribes 2. I can't phone 4 people at the same time, either. Maybe you can. > >> I get AIM for free because at the top of my buddy >> list there is a little ad banner that I never look at. And there >> are a bunch of things that pop up and annoy me by default. >> Trillian doesn't have these. Trillian has no advertising at all. > > So you should use this Trillian then, no? You could. But then you'd need backups when AOL blocks your client from their servers > >> Thus, AOL pays money >> for bandwith and networking expenses for their AIM network, > > Ah, yeah, make that: "AOL's suckers I mean subscribers pay money > for..." No. The money required for running the AIM servers is generally got by running ads in AIM. Get free program, free access to AOL's chat network, 1 banner ad that you don't even have to look at. Don't like it? Go find another chat network > >> and they >> don't get money from advertising because no one uses the AIM >> client and AOL gets screwed out of money. > > Sounds like a pretty good arrangement to me. Tell me, can I use > this Trillian with its no-ads if I'm an AOL subscriber? Oh, no, > they want to pump ads at me there too, don't they, even though I'm > paying for the service? Yes, you can use Trillian if you are an AOL subscriber. You simply set your AOL screen name to away/No one can see me when I'm online, create an AIM screen name and sign on through Trillian. -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
