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Date:      Sun, 3 May 1998 22:48:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Matthew Hunt <mph@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503224218.20104J-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980504042132.04003@follo.net>

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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> Automated and complete - and in a medium where you've got an absolute
> pay-per-view, not a pay-per-percieved-viewer.  Switching channels is
> included in the overhead for television advertising - automatically
> removing all banners should not be. 

We're right now determining the course of future Internet commerce.  If
stripping annoying crap out of webpages becomes the norm then one might
expect less annoying crap overall once content sites realized the error of
their ways.

Finding a way to make money off the net isn't my problem.  It appears to
be yours.  What I suggest you do is put your employers time to good use
and find a solution that makes your customers happy and stop bickering
about this.

> My friends upstairs are spending 60% of their waking time making
> content, and are asking for only one thing in return: That you view the
> ads that are sold in on the pages.  Do you feel that taking all revenues
> away from them is the right thing to do, just because your download of
> the content might be slower if you don't steal? 

I'm not stealing.  I'm simply opting not to view ad spam (I just realized
something.  I'm not using Junk Buster right now so this whole arguement is
academic.)

You've not answered the Lynx question yet.  How is it stealing when I have
a web proxy that doesn't pass web-spam to Netscape but not when I use Lynx
which doesn't load the images anyway.

(Hint: You've got no leg to stand on.)

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