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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:46:40 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
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Nicholas,

At 13:37 2002-09-11, you wrote:

>--- Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com> wrote:
> > Nicolas,
>
>s/Nicolas/Nicholas/

Apologies. I confused your name with that of a "Nicolas" in another forum.


> > There are those who find it rude to allow advertisements to be injected
> > into your mail so that you can think of it as "free."
>
>By what standards?  There's a whole hell of a difference between
>plaintext ads and html/animatedgif/javascript bs.  You're missing the
>point I fear...

I'm not missing a point, I'm making one.

Your unwillingness to pay for a service results in a cost borne by all the 
recipients of your messages. It's not the perceived degree of blatantness 
to which I object (I've become quite able to ignore all the flashing 
animated advertisements on Web pages, where I've come to expect them even 
if I don't like them). Rather, it's the injection of commercial messages 
into an otherwise non-commercial forum to which I object.


>Cheers,
>Nicholas


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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