NONE: Re: Ad questions
Re: Ad questions
Tonyandpip_at_aol.com
Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:13:19 -0400
In a message dated 27/06/96 10:56:35, you write:
> I know of one successful firm in Connecticut
>employing around a dozen usenet posters, typing merrily away in a large
>room on a dozen PCs. The firm has contracts from various clients, who
>carefully specify which newsgroups to post to.
>
>
Writing from the UK I find this very interesting, on the basis that people do
not normally go around setting up firms with a dozen staff if they are not
making money out of it.
Personally, I've got bored still shuffling around the Web trying to get onto
sites that people mention in emails, magazines or whatever. I'm much happier
subscribing to mailing lists - and maybe some other people find that a lot
easier too. As we all know, turn on the machine and there's all the mail.
Now if someone mailed me on a mailing list, or put up a notice on a news
group I subscribe to for off line reading, and it was a blatant ad - you know
the type MAKE MILLIONS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, NO
SELLING NOT MLM, YOU WONT EVEN HAVE TO GET OUT OF BED then I know its a scam
and delete it (or sometimes send it to the Postmaster). But if they say
"here is a company that helps you set up your publishing firm in Australia"
or something relevant to me then I might email them, and would not feel
aggrieved - even if the charter of the group said no advertising.
I think that this type of dropping messages onto newsgroups and maillists
could be the way out of the Web overload - what do you think?
Tony
(I know my sig still advertises our web site, 'cost that's what we are still
selling, so what I am saying is maybe we should change.)
