Re: not really OT: eweek article 'Popup Ads Bad for Business'

Subject: Re: not really OT: eweek article 'Popup Ads Bad for Business'
From: "Mike O." <obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:52:26 -0500


James Jones wrote:
> Pop-up ads, especially the kind
> you cannot immediately close down, are extremely annoying. I installed
> Ad-aware and Spybot (recommended by someone at Earthlink) on my machine
> and the problem has nearly gone away for me, but I know it's still out
> there.
>
> How in the world people could come up with such a way to annoy others is
> beyond me. I would tend to doubt that companies ever got back their
> investments in this technology.

Don't doubt...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibd/20040309/bs_ibd_ibd/20043
9tech
(beware linkwrap)

Mike O.



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