In a message dated 5/17/2005 12:35:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, mamat@gvtel.com writes: Of course, any mail stored on your computer is gonna take up space!!! computer novice or not, you'd have to be a complete idiot not to realize that...... PAX NancyT --- Nancy- Yeah--normally I'd agree---but I think AOL was coming from the experience of getting a lot of complaints -- enough that it made them think this change was necessary. There was another instance where AOL made a decision to change a setting on every AOLer's personal computers without telling them or asking them. Before the Windows XP service pack 2 came out the default setting for XP computers was to have Windows Messenger enabled. The only valid use for Windows Messenger service is in networks where network admins needed to send a message to others on the network--usually in a work environment. Spammers found a loophole in XP and by using Windows Messenger they could (and frequently did) send spam directly to your desktop and didn't even need to know your email address to send the messages--they just randomly selectly various AOL IP addresses and probably other ISPs also. Well, naturally inexperienced AOLers were reporting the Windows Messenger popup windows as being spam coming from AOL because they just appeared out of nowhere. It wasn't coming FROM AOL but looked that way to the people complaining about the spam. So AOL made the decision to shut off Windows Messenger on all AOLers' computers without telling them. It was no doubt easier than trying to explain to everyone how to do it themselves. I'm sure some might find that an invasion of privacy on AOL's part--but I think they were just trying find the best solution to all the complaints they had received. Joan