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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:33:46 -0600
From:      Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape Corp
Message-ID:  <365C5B9A.9251D831@airnet.net>
References:  <4.1.19981123010402.00adf100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981123010402.00adf100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981123134143.00ae4100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981124220824.00ae8a50@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981125132641.00aef530@genesis.ispace.com>

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Drew Baxter wrote:
> 
> At 07:45 AM 11/25/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >Drew Baxter wrote:
> >>
> >> At 07:27 AM 11/24/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >> >Drew Baxter wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Also I don't want to see AOL intermeshed and woven into
> >> >> the Netscape package, which it already includes AOL Instant Messenger
> >> >> (which you cannot pick to not install) with the Win32 installations.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >But you can disable it :-)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sure if you want to plunge into the registry.
> >
> >Not so. From any Communicator window select Communicator -> AOL
> >Instant Messenger, then in the set-up dialogue box (if you get a box
> >first asking what type of connection you have, just click cancel)
> >select the ``misc'' tab and un-check ``Start AIM when Windows
> >starts''. Voila, no AOL Instant Messenger :-)
> 
> But why can't I just go and find it under 'additional components' during a
> custom setup and nuke it that way?  That's what I think is stupid.

I just hope they don't get the silly idea to port IM to Un*x. I always
liked the independence from AOL's crap and Microshaft's.
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Kris Kirby 
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