[78-L] Lottaspam ^

[David Lennick]

FWIW, I've been used to seeing add-on ads since I first joined the internet age 
belatedly in 2000 and I've long been used to ignoring the stuff. But for some 
reason "Single Christians Want To Meet You" seemed to cross a line.

Whatever happened to those cute pictures of Faith Hill? Those probably never 
made it through Demime.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Lichtman" <jeff at swazoo.com>
>>> I can try to find a program that will automatically strip out those
>>> advertisements, if I do there is a chance it would also strip out an
>>> occasional link that a member adds to his/her email to the
>>> list.  There are such programs  (demime used to do some filtering) ,
>>> but they must be constantly keep up to date because the ad writers
>>> constantly change their messages to try to bypass those filtering 
>>> programs.
>> In my opinion it wouldn't be worth the effort to try to strip off
>> these ads. They're easy to ignore once you know what they are.
>> There's also the possibility that software to strip off ads will make
>> mistakes and remove legitimate content. I think it's better to leave
>> things alone than to invest a lot of effort in an imperfect solution
>> to a minor problem.
>>
> The harsh reality is THIS!! We are now in the XXI Jahrhundert...
> and MANY, if not MOST, folks want to get insanely rich...just
> like the CEO's and such they read about!
> 
> One of the ways to do this is to ADVERTISE whenever possible!
> About 75% of my daily newspaper is ads, along with a significant
> part of my e-mail and the usual innumerable flyers stuffed into my
> mailbox or included in my daily paper...?!
> 
> Welcome to the new age...?!?!
> 
> FEH!!
> 
> ...stevenc