SJS wrote: > begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 03:34:05PM -0700: >> Paul G. Allen wrote: >> >>> Now herein lies a problem with Spam. Everyone thinks it's not their >>> responsibility, that it belongs to someone else. If you want to use >>> e-mail, then you, and me, and everyone else should do our part to keep >>> the pricks from taking advantage of it. >> We do. None of *us* buy things from spam. None of *us* allow people we >> know to market via spam. >> >> I had this discussion recently with a friend starting real estate. >> "Look, telemaketing, cold calls, contact lists, email lists are all >> *spam*. Period. It doesn't matter now nice you are or how quickly you >> sort the list. I can't stop you from doing it right now, but if I ever >> *can*, you're going down. Remember that." > > Which brings up the issue: what *are* the appropriate ways to effectively > create interest in your service/product/whatnot, especially using the > shiny new technological tools we have these days. > > Advertising on web-pages? Sure, it's allowed, but most of 'em I block, > and I'm happy to show others how to block 'em, so I couldn't really > offer that as a reasonable alternative.
I don't block advertisements (per se) --sometimes the ads are even informative or useful-- but I do tend to react negatively and block anything that moves! I wish I could get that across to advertisers, but I suppose I am in a minority. :-( > .. Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
