yeah. they do. all of the chat rooms on aol instant messanger suck ass. they're so bad you shouldn't even check to see how bad they are. you'll start getting AOL-IM spam. that and there doesn't even seem to be anybody actually talking. it's all spambots with porn links.
i saw a spambot that acts like a young-ish girl. it says "gee i hate all the dirty porm spam here. look at my website" (full transcript pending) then you get a link so some damn porn spam. and from now on you will keep getting porn spam. it's too late. your sn has been compromised.
this is a perfect example of an online community gone bad. we could go into lessig mode and think about how the bad code is at fault. closed bad code. aim is some of the worst bloatware around and aol refuses to open their instant messaging protocol. by keeping a closed protocol and using technology to restrict technology blah blah. look, i can't describe all this stuff. i'm ending this thought and throwing out some links. i have to go to bed and if i wait to post this then i won't.
so here are the links. first the link to this idea on my wiki.
Posted by rett at February 1, 2003 04:40 AM | TrackBack