Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:37:15 -0500 From: Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com> To: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Corp Message-ID: <4.1.19981125143657.00b654f0@genesis.ispace.com> In-Reply-To: <365C5B9A.9251D831@airnet.net> References: <4.1.19981123010402.00adf100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981123010402.00adf100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981123134143.00ae4100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981124220824.00ae8a50@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981125132641.00aef530@genesis.ispace.com>
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At 01:33 PM 11/25/98 -0600, Kris Kirby wrote: >Drew Baxter wrote: >> >> At 07:45 AM 11/25/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >> >Drew Baxter wrote: >> >> >> >> At 07:27 AM 11/24/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >> >> >Drew Baxter wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Also I don't want to see AOL intermeshed and woven into >> >> >> the Netscape package, which it already includes AOL Instant Messenger >> >> >> (which you cannot pick to not install) with the Win32 installations. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >But you can disable it :-) >> >> > >> >> >> >> Sure if you want to plunge into the registry. >> > >> >Not so. From any Communicator window select Communicator -> AOL >> >Instant Messenger, then in the set-up dialogue box (if you get a box >> >first asking what type of connection you have, just click cancel) >> >select the ``misc'' tab and un-check ``Start AIM when Windows >> >starts''. Voila, no AOL Instant Messenger :-) >> >> But why can't I just go and find it under 'additional components' during a >> custom setup and nuke it that way? That's what I think is stupid. > >I just hope they don't get the silly idea to port IM to Un*x. I always >liked the independence from AOL's crap and Microshaft's. They don't have to port it, they have a Java version. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA http://www.droo.orland.me.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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