AOL Terms and Conditions -- Revealed!
Derek Balling
dredd at megacity.org
Sat Apr 28 19:48:14 UTC 2001
At 3:31 PM -0400 4/28/01, Shawn McMahon wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 09:57:43PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote:
>>
>> *NOT* going to agree to their 'terms'. With the agreement of my laywer,
>> I've posted the terms to which I was being asked to agree.
>>
>> http://www.mailinglists.org/aol.html
>
>It's official; AOL's lawyers are completely out of their minds.
>
>That list should in and of itself be enough to allow committal for
>72-hour observation.
>
>They don't even follow all of those themselves.
Does anyone know if AOL has tried to impose those terms on "big
names" (e.g., Listbot, yahoogroups, etc.)?
I can't picture a major competitor to AOL (such as Microsoft or
Yahoo) agreeing to abide by the AOL TOS, among the many other
ludicrous things in there.... :)
D
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