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AIM Bots: Useful or Spam?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the future-of-advertising dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Imagine my surprise this morning when AOL AIM popped up a window and introduced me to two bots that it automatically added to my buddy list. " Two seperate issues- one is simply auto adding robots to your friends list, which is very uncool. The second is a corporation using bots in an official capacity. This is an interesting trend, although technically speaking, not that far from the eggdrop of old.

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  1. Re:Meh. by lixee · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our new auto-adding-bots overlords.

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  2. I use Miranda... by Elminst · · Score: 0, Redundant

    End of problem.

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