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Subject: Re: "Phantom" Subscribers
From: Lazlo Nibble <lazlo @ swcp . com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:53:00 -0700 (MST)
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com (lm)

>> AOL doesn't let its users "run unchecked."  Every incident of abuse
>> I've reported to AOL has been dealt with promptly, which is more than I
>> can say for many other access providers.
>
> Agreed.  Unfortunately, many of the problems most net denizens have with
> AOL folks don't necessarily have to do much with 'abuse' per se --
> they've got to do with the way AOL does stuff, like the fact that you
> can dynamically create/delete 5 names, which creates countless headaches
> for listadmins.

I agree on this one; I'd feel much better about the screen-name business if
there were some way to correlate all the names with a single account ID.

--
::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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