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hi i was bored
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i threw this together... in like 15 minutes, been a while so forgive
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the real lack of angst and anger...
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"du0d. Let's be friends"
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By: y (juuri@well.com)
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USENET. Fun. Exciting and New. Come aboard some company
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is trying to rape you! It was of course something that couldn't be
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avoided... that is USENET advertising. With the influx of society
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as a whole we not only get the combined intellects of the world we
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get all of the faults it has as well. The problem I have is not
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really the Ads themselves. It is the turn they have recently been
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taking; friendship ?!
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Email is a very personal thing, even when on a mailing list
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crammed with hundreds of people it still feels like the email is
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coming to you or you are part of the conversation. USENET feels
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much the same way. Because of this some "sly" advertisers are using
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a new gimmick to try and sell their products. Instead of blatant
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advertisements they present themselves as "friends" of the reader
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who is "doing a favor" or passing on some "secret info". Take some
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of the following examples:
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"Hey here is that website I was telling you about..."
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"I had the same problem, they answered it at this <URL>"
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"FOR MY FRIENDS ONLY! <URL>"
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Those are a few of the more obvious examples and anyone
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who can think for themselves should be able to spot them, right?
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Well of course they should and the advertisers know this so they
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are getting even sneakier. A new technique employed is the moronic
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question/answer method. In this simple con turned Internet, someone
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uses an account and asks a dumb question... in response some one
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replies with a seemingly innocent third party product that fixes
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the problem of the first person. This is just one of the new
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tricks used by Internet advertisers.
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So why the fuss? Why do I care? Why should you care?
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Well because unlike the rest of the world advertising on the net
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is in it's childhood. Like a child we, as the parents of the net,
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can mold and shape the way it develops. Enabling us to have a
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medium of communication that isn't brandished with a corporate
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logo or slogan at every turn. Of course you can do nothing and
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have another television that insults you at every opportunity
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or you can put forth just a small amount of effort and make a
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real difference...
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