I have a cause - to rid the world of advertising. I'm putting double-page spreads in all the national dailies tomorrow, and having a poster campaign to announce it to the world and ask people to rally to the cause.
Bob > > Bob W. > You need a cause or something to crusade for...maybe global warming? > This problem with Photo.net advertising seems to petty to > merit your attention. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Okay. But my real point was that none of the photo sites are > >> perfect. > > [...] > >> i just didn't like the recommendation that > >> PDML members refrain from posting on photo.net. I've been > >> there for a > >> long time, and I intend to stay there. > >> Paul > > > > I wasn't complaining about advertising as such, I was > complaining about the > > particularly annoying type of advertising that photo.net is > showing at the > > moment. > > > > I dislike advertising intensely at the best of times. More > often than not > > it's visual pollution and thinly disguised lying, but I'm > enough of a > > realist to know it's not going away, and advertising per se won't > > necessarily drive me away from a site. However I don't have > to put up with > > annoying animations winking in the corner of my eye. > > > >> The fact that a site is able > >> to attract advertising is an indication of its success, > not its failure. > > > > That may be so, but when the advertising starts to drive > people away, who > > wins? > > > > Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
