Re: Search400 blackmail? Webwasher banners! -- MIDRANGE-L

That TOTALLY kicks !!!!

I KNEW loading banners slowed things down but had NO idea until I saw Web Washer
in action. I have a "neglected" mail box at NETSCAPE.NET and I was doing some
testing and went to it to discover that I had NOT unsubscribed from Midrange-L
(spaced it after THAT test) and had a TON of messages (2800) and had exceeded my
free storage limit. You only get so many a screen so deleting them is a pain. It
was going VERY quickly compared to the last time I did this several months ago
and then it hit me - NO BANNER LOADING !!!!

THANK YOU JEROME - you da MAN !!!!

Chuck

Jerome Draper wrote:

> Yes, sounds like BM to me but banners suck anyway.
>
> I use and recommend Web Washer as an add-in to my browser that eliminates
> banner ads from browsing completely.  I never see them so I don't know if
> they are there or not.  BTW, my browser runs faster too.  Greatest thing
> since sliced bread but doesn't make advertisers happy.
>
> Free Webwasher can be downloaded from:
>
> http://www.siemens.de/servers/wwash/wwash_us.htm
>
> Jerry
>
> At 03:10 PM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> >I'd be interested in any other software vendors opinion of this item
> >received from Search400. Bear in mind that our company is a search400
> >customer - we place banner ads with them. Does this not sound like a
> >form of blackmail?
> >
> >>Search400.com has had vendors approach us about buying search keywords
> >>that are their competitors' company name or product name.  Here's a
> >>fictional example --  Microsoft might buy the keywords "IBM" and
> >>"AS/400" so that all user searches on these terms will result in a
> >>Microsoft banner above Web results relevant to IBM and AS/400.
> >
> >>This is not an uncommon occurrance on other search engines.  For
> >>example, Yahoo regularly sells keyword banners associated with company
> >>names to either the company or their competitors.
> >
> >>Before we begin to accept these orders, we want to offer you the
> >>opportunity to lock up the keywords for the name of your company and
> >>products.  We've developed a special vendor keyword package where you
> >>can buy your company name and three of your company's product names for
> >>only $250 per month. This special is effective until December 31st.
> >
> >>If you're interested in taking advantage of this special offer please
> >>call me or reply to this email.  We will not accept any insertion
> >>orders for competitive "keyword" names until January.
> >
>
> Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
> Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
> Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, Perle, Netsoft, etc.
> (415) 457-3431; (415) 258-1658fax; jdraper@wco.com
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