[ILUG] Internet Junk Buster

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:12:47AM -0800, Ronny Bangsund mentioned:
> (I really like Yahoo mailservices; every other e-mail I read
> has a tiny banner. Mail sent out has a tiny footer, but this
> is my most reliable account (accessible from all over the
> world, quite fast, five teensy clickable images).)
> 
> If a site has any need for user-accounts, let there be an
> option to narrow your fields of interests in banner-ads.

 You'd be surprised how people take this. We had a thing in our
"conditions of service" agreement, when you sign up for an online.ie
account, that we'ed (paraphrase) "reserve the right to request information
off you to target advertising and special offers that you would be most
interested in" - and someone mailed me saying that this was a serious
breach of privacy. I was actually quite surprised.

 Our mail has a nasty big 450x80 (or something) image up the top, but no
mail footer - just an X-header. What size image is the yahoo one ?

Kate

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