If Valve were pre-disposed to taking punitive action against dissenters on this list they would have done so a long ago.
Server admins can belly ache all they want about ads... if they are in fact client side, there is nothing that can be done about them anyway other than express your dissatisfaction to Valve. Attempting to "hack" ads on the server side would create the proverbial "cure is worse than the disease" scenario. I'm sure some will try, but most will not and therein lies the Achilles heal of the ad foes. There aren't enough of you to make a difference. -----Original Message----- From: RMaioroff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:11 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Ingame adds, who will remove them? If they enabled / fixed them, it's a direct message that they're going to stay. There is a substantial investment in time and money for them to develop the ad based model and get it to this stage. Yes, a lot of us think it's a bad idea, but we're not paying the salaries of the Valve staff. Business decisions aren't going to happen overnight, but what will likely happen quickly is the Valve guys beginning to take a hard look at the admins whom foolishly use this mailing list to discuss counter-ad tactics. Is discussing it illegal? No. In bad form? Yep. The valve lists are valuable to me, and since they're a privilege that can be taken away at any time, I just as soon say my 2 cents and hope that the cumulative effect of mine and opinions from others will have some kind of positive influence on the future decisions in their product design. You can bet one thing though; continue to discuss how to defeat their systems, and you'll be getting their attention for the wrong reasons. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saint K. Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 7:06 AM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: Re: [hlds] Ingame adds, who will remove them? Any one found a way yet to disable todays update which shows the ads again? Saint K. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
