<OT> <TID> Re: Noteworthy News Item

[James McDonald]

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:29, Net Llama! wrote:
 The point is that all of the list members shouldn't have to
> be impacted by 1 person's personal preferences.

I actually subscribed to the South China Morning Post to view one article 
featuring a friend and I still receive content totally irrelevant to me after 
over a year. So in my mind a posting of text from one article to a list is 
easier to bear than constant "messages from our business partners" & "would 
you like to buy an anniversary edition of a NYT reading lamp". Not to mention 
the necessity to track another password email combination.

To my mind I think people in general are tired of being barraged by 
advertising especially when they missed the pre-checked registration box 
saying "hey can me and my friends send you spam?". 

Considering we are barraged with more information in one day than a person in 
the 13th century would encounter in a lifetime I try to filter... the 
distractions.

I have yet to take ten seconds to register for anything maybe it's the slow 
pipe but it usually is the annoying data mining they are doing in the process 

A. select your region 
	(oh you live in Australia hmmm)
B. Postcode / Zip
	(I wonder if we can sell his information to a marketing organization?)
C. Position
	(ah huh)
D. Company Name
	(I wonder how that fits into our demographic?)
E. Privacy Statement
	(We promise not to use your information for anything that wont profit us)
F. User Name

G. Inside Trouser leg measurement
	(add infinitum etc etc)

Oh and congratulations to the .com's for finally learning that a business 
needs to make money in order to survive... viv la "new" economy...

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