[ale] AOL "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"

[Irv Mullins]

On Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:22:23 -0400, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

> M$ had come up with some 'innovation' to html pages where they would run
> pages through a filter before IE presented them and certain words would
> show up as links when they weren't links in the actual page.  M$'s
> intent was to sell this service so folks could force feed ads to you via
> IE.  Like you load a page that contains the word 'car' and it loads in
> your browser as a link to the ford motor company...
> 
> I don't know what they ever did with it, because they got slammed pretty
> good for intending on editing pages they did not have permission to edit..

I guess their lawyers finally got a clue that they would be opening
themselves up for tons of copyright
infringement lawsuits.  Too bad the 
got the clue so quickly, I was looking forward to my newfound wealth...

Irv