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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:37:15 -0500
From:      Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
To:        Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape Corp
Message-ID:  <4.1.19981125143657.00b654f0@genesis.ispace.com>
In-Reply-To: <365C5B9A.9251D831@airnet.net>
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At 01:33 PM 11/25/98 -0600, Kris Kirby wrote:
>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.

They don't have to port it, they have a Java version.


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Drew "Droobie" Baxter
Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA
http://www.droo.orland.me.us


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