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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!isc
- From: isc@panix.com (David Koosis)
- Subject: Re: BillBoards/Advertisement
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.201905.8732@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:19:05 GMT
- Distribution: misc
- References: <JDAVIS.92Dec29083137@dante.nmsu.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- In <JDAVIS.92Dec29083137@dante.nmsu.edu> jdavis@nmsu.edu (DAVIS) writes:
-
- >THe mentioning of internet with NO billboards is lacking.
- > Think of this.. Most machines get logged in to many times a day. Some
- >100+ different college kids log into our main UNIX here at NMSU each
- >school day. This makes me think of the $$ that could be made by
- >selling MOTD advertising.
- ...
-
- Eeeek! don't even _think_ it! The whole beauty of the net
- lies in the ability to filter out the noise.
- If I'm interested in left-threaded strato-widgets, then I'll
- subscribe to misc.widgets. The more noise you generate, the
- less effective the medium becomes for any kind of communication,
- including commercial advertising.
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