From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ab3c50aebe0aa719 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-21 15:24:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B32741D.DFB464A0@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es,fr,pt MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play References: <3B2BF9CD.57D83FAF@acm.org> <3B2D5BA7.C7F6CCC3@linuxchip.demon.co.uk> <9gl34g$ah5$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9f6e2b77.0106211347.6c60e8ac@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:24:29 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 993162271 151.168.144.162 (Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:24:31 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:24:31 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9009 Date: 2001-06-21T17:24:29-05:00 List-Id: > Well, this would be a good way to test the robustness of your browser. > I'd imagine that most advertisers would consider such a filter A Bad > Thing :-). They want you to be sitting there with nothing to do but > read their ads while you wait for your text to be displayed. They'd > do whatever they could to break your browser. Not until it conquers a significant portion of the browser "market" .... Notice these advertisers are not bothered by the fact that ten percent of the viewers DETEST the #^%%^#^ BLINKING in these ads and won't buy a product advertised that way. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau