Re: New Spyware

From: OneLouder (edayaxwellmay@exoboxway.omcay)
Date: 02/09/02 

From: OneLouder <edayaxwellmay@exoboxway.omcay>
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 19:04:12 GMT

in article 3c65668a.1693296@news.atl.bellsouth.net, MOTAR the imperious at
motar@motar.corn wrote on 2/9/02 10:19 AM:

> <Yawn>
> Some things come down to philosophy.
>
> You can post til you are blue in the face about how it's not spyware,
> but when the site brags that it sticks to their target user better
> than others.... nobody is going to care how upstanding you think it
> is.
>
> There is a bit of a revolution going on. Advertisers.... back off! Get
> out of our face. Earn your respect and quit trying to push your ***
> off on us.
>
> Mti

A fellow traveler, how nice.

Marketing hyperbole aside, all that quote meant was that people spent more
time at our site than many others. The common term for that is "stickiness"
- ie. people stuck to using our site rather than others. It meant that
people liked our content, not that we forced them to use it. If you look at
the rest of the list of sites in that report, you'll see the usual folks -
Yahoo, MSN, CNN, etc. etc.

Believe me, I'm well aware I'm wasting my time on zealots.

-- Duane