Word: aol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitment to the digital era bore richer fruit than ever. We consider the computer revolution one of the defining stories of our time. Our coverage in 1997 ranged from managing editor Walter Isaacson's groundbreaking profile of Bill Gates of Microsoft to that company's bailout of Apple and AOL's acquisition of CompuServe...
...AOL Roller Coaster Cyberspace's No. 1 online service was one long busy signal last winter, leading critics to predict gleefully the pre-Web relic's demise. Well, if you bought AOL stock in, say, January, you would have nearly quadrupled your money by Thanksgiving. Could AOL chairman Steve Case be the new Michael Eisner...
While all the online services get spammed, America Online is particularly vulnerable. One reason is that it's by far the largest, with about 10 million subscribers, giving E-mailers a large, captive pool of targets. Another is that AOL members are encouraged to fill out self-descriptive "profiles" that spammers can easily sift through to assemble lists of potential customers...
...couple of years ago, parents couldn't do much about such mailings. Replying to the E-mail, whether to complain or to get taken off a mailing list, was sometimes the worst possible move, since many spammers would simply redouble their efforts. But AOL, which bills itself as a family service, has tried to respond to complaints. It now offers parents two major lines of defense, known as mail controls and parental controls. Adults can keep kids from receiving E-mail altogether or let them get it only from other AOL members or from a specified list of approved senders...
Beyond that, if an objectionable E-mail should get through, members can forward it to a department known as TOSspam (TOS stands for Terms of Service, AOL's internal police force), which can help the service take legal action. Last November, for example, it got a preliminary injunction against a firm called Over the Air Equipment, which not only sent sexually oriented spam but forged the AOL logo as well to suggest that the online provider was its partner...