Re: Annoying Pop Ups
From: John (john_at_aol.com)
Date: 07/27/03
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Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 22:40:14 -0700
Ok than WHY is "Opera and Mozilla" allowed to have pop-up
blockers in their browsers and not Microsoft. Is IE sent
from God himself. Than Opera and Mozilla should be sued!.
What about Earthlink with it's pop-up blocker and spam
remover. Blue mountain should sue them!. Do you think
people really want spam or pop-up adds. No!. That is why
the government should now begin to crack down on
spamers.People want IE to have a built in pop-up remover
plain and simple, like the other browsers do!. Even
Safari from Apple has a pop-up remover. Let them sue!.
They'll be as popular with Windows users as SCO is with
Linux users. And SCO will loose that battle!.
>-----Original Message-----
>In article <047601c35346$933f2130
$a601280a@phx.gbl>, "John [MNVP]"
><john@aol.com> wrote:
>>Yeh! And Microsoft can't control allowing pop-ups to be
>>disabled with IE 6!
>
>Okay, let's rock.
>
>1. Chandroo's messages come from the Messenger Service.
Removing IE
>completely wouldn't help. These messages can be blocked
either by disabling
>Messenger Service (bad idea), or enabling a firewall
(good idea).
>
>>What a joke they could easily remove
>>them by coming out with a new version of IE like the
>>superior Mozilla, and Opera browsers have.
>
>2. Want to see what happened last time they did anything
like that?
><URL:http://infoeagle.bc.
>edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/headlines/content/19990317
02.html>
>
>Put simply, Microsoft added spam filters to Outlook
Express, and a company
>(bluemountain.com) took them to court and got an
injunction to have
>Microsoft remove those spam filters on the grounds that
they were
>"anti-competitive" (even in the face of objections that
what the filter did
>to BlueMountain's "e-cards", it also did to Microsoft's
similar offering).
>
>If MS put a popup blocker into IE, you'd likely get a
number of court-cases
>resulting in its removal before we ever got to see the
technology. Granted,
>I'd like to see them try it, just in case they win this
time.
>
>>But we will
>>probably have to wait 2 more f...g years for that to
>>happen!. Because MS "allows" companies to put pop-ups
in
>>the browser to annoy us IE users!. And hey what a
better
>>reason to upgrade to the next operating system coming
out
>>in 2005 to get the new IE with a built in pop-up
>>remover!. Another great way to make a buck!.
>
>3. Actually, if you want to blame anyone for the ability
to add pop-ups, you
>might want to blame the inventors of, oh, Javascript.
Now, who would that
>be? Oh, yes, Netscape.
>
>Now, whether future versions of IE will include popup
blockers or not, I
>can't say (haven't researched the issue) - but I can
suggest numerous
>reasons why they don't, the biggest of which would be
the threats of
>lawsuits from advertisers and from existing popup
blocker manufacturers.
>
>Not every undesired result comes from well thought-out
evil plans in
>Redmond. In fact, very few do.
>
>Alun.
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