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From: Marc Fossi (mfossi@securityfocus.com)
Date: 02/26/03

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From: Marc Fossi <mfossi@securityfocus.com>
To: Focus-MS <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>

    Well, it looks like the general consensus is that if ads will help to
    ensure the list sticking around, most people are for it. I'd say that
    about 99 percent of those who replied were in favour, and I'm guessing
    that those who didn't respond at all were indiferrent. Thanks to those
    who took the time to send me their feedback, both positive and negative.

    Just to address a couple of the most common concerns people had:

    The ads will be in plain text with a hyperlink to the advertiser's
    website. As far as I know, there will not be any banner ads, HTML, or
    scripts.

    No, we will not be advertising Viagra or any naughty web cams or things of
    that sort. The advertisements will be IT related, hopefully security
    related, and ideally MS security related.

    As a side note, you'll also notice that I'm going to start sending
    messages to the list when new articles are posted to the MS focus area of
    the website. They'll be simple short messages with the name of the
    article, a brief one paragraph synopsis, and the url. I think these
    articles are of general interest to the group since I usually pull a lot
    of the topics from discussions on this list (and many of the authors are
    regular contributors here).

    Well, that's enough out of me for now. If you have any other questions or
    comments about the list, please feel free to contact me.

    Cheers,

    Marc Fossi
    Symantec Corp.
    www.symantec.com

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