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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. Time to... by mysqlrocks · · Score: 1, Troll

    move to Google Talk.

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    Bradley Holt
  2. Complain by gregbains · · Score: 0, Troll

    Loudly complain, move to Google Talk/MSN Messenger

    I pick Micro$oft over AOHell anyday

  3. Re:Near monopoly? by mindsuck · · Score: 1, Troll

    In Latin America MSN Messenger uses you!

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