morcheeba's Journal: AOL kills puppies

I saw this link on politechbot - wow, AOL kills little tiny puppies!! All just because they don't allow links in email signatures. You'd think they wouldn't care about the content of emails (yes, a sig line is content - you could just as easily add it in your self and it's indistinguisable from the body), and if they wanted to enforce this policy, they could just pare links out of the sig lines. But what if your email reader sees a url-looking thing that isn't a link and automatically makes a link for you? is tat.to now forbidden (it goes to a web page)?

At first...

[Xerithane]

that was read as a joke, then I read through and was pretty shocked. Terms of Service be damned, if I ever had an ISP that changed my password, I'd be pretty pissed. I would say that constitutes breach of contract, and possibly invasion of privacy..

That is pretty messed up, glad the guy got off AOL... not like Earthlink is much better though.