AOL to Class Action: You Can Turn Off Email Footer

In case you missed it, AOL was a defendant against a class action lawsuit, and the company is telling its users (both paying customers and free users) that they can turn off the annoying AOL ads that get attached to the bottom of each and every email.

But AOL coyly sent the information to only your master screen name. They also coyly made it easy to miss, by not giving the email any distinguishing official flair. If you missed it (like I did) because you usually use a non-master screen name, then go to your master screen name and look for an email with "footer" in the incoming address.

The bottom line is this:

Copy the following web address, and then log into each screen name, and visit the web address from each one. You'll be able to turn off the email footer that AOL's been attaching to all your outgoing emails without your permission.

Here it is:

http://controls.api-mail.aol.com/mailcontrols/app/en-US/FooterControl.html