On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 19:07:22 -0400, Michael ODonnell wrote: > <snip> > I suspect that at least one of us has missed a point; I was > only worried that if (say) you were a gmail user and the > gmail folks felt free to append an ad to end of all your > outbound emails then anything you posted to the GNHLUG > list would contain an ad, thereby shoving that ad into > all our faces even though the rest of us were NOT gmail > users and had not consented to view those ads. The gmail > folks would benefit because their ads would be in front > of a whole set of "eyeballs" (I've heard that's how the ad > geeks think of us) without us getting anything in return. >
Only gmail users see the ad. For instance, for this thread I see ads for email marketing off to the far right. <snip> > BTW, where's the Linux connection in all of this? > maybe this thread oughta be taking place on a different > GNHLUG channel... > philosophical questions outside the scope of Linux but related to tech seem fine to me for gnhlug. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss