| everyone, advertisement is a neccessary thing, that is actually how most web sites are still alive, is due to advertisements, that is how any product makes it way into the world is via any advertisment medium (tv, word of mouth, web sites). but.. marketer, there is a limit to what advertisements should do, you mentioned about the billboards, and commercials, if we don't want to watch them, we just turn our head. with the net send messages, pop up ads, and UN-solicited email, we are on the electronic road, and they are in the middle of it. we can't just turn our head and pass them, close our eyes, and they go away. they are up until we close them. Given we can turn off our messenger service, so because of some ignorance, we have to disable a feature on our machines, i have 2 co-located servers, each one uses the messenger to send error messages to the other, sends the last error it had, so i know what went wrong. as for pop-ups, there are Some free ad-blockers, but they also block neccesary links, pop ups should not be used as advertisments, on-screen inside the web space should be the only areas of advertisments. Un-solicited email, any email that i did not directly sign up for should not be sent to me. my email address should not be sold, should not be used in any other fasion other than what i specified, which i get a shitload of spam messages a day, like i need to know how cheap i can get cigaretts when i don't smoke, or that i can get free access to some porn site, or any other type of email that when the only thing i signed up for was for computer hardware and software. in conclusion, there are some "advertisment manners" which should be obeyed by the advertisment companies (or whoever else does advertising). and there are some "manners" which the consumer should obey as well. advertisers should not block us from doing what we had started out to do, by taking our window focus away from our initial program we are in, is not right, using the far right side of the page, its there, but not intrusively there. as a consumer have to understand that advertisments are there, hoping and wishing that some day there will be actual laws to enforce certain policies, but they are there. but. any net send message i receive, i track them down and send them an email to remove me from any list they have. any 2nd net send i get from them, i post their IP address on hacker boards. that has so far worked out for me. got my net sends down to one every other week, rather than 6-10 a day. just my 2 cents on the topic. |
Net Send - Yet Another Type of Spam