Get Article on Flying!!

But the legit sites don't spam. There are web hosts that
run seminars on Internet marketing that teach suckers to use
newsgroups as advertising.


"gatt" wrote in message
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|
| "Peter Duniho" wrote in
message
| ...
|
| The web site wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the
advertisements,
|
| Neither would the AOPA site, probably.
|
| Chalk it up as aggressive self-promotion in a world where,
sometimes, that's
| the only way you can get ahead. What flight school
doesn't advertise, and
| what advertisement doesn't spin the information to shed
the best possible
| light on its subject?
|
| As a UNIX admin for a major network provider, I fight spam
for a living as
| part of my job, so I'm not out here making excuses for it.
I think that the
| articles would be interesting for beginning pilots and
it's no more
| commercially-oriented than the AOPA and other websites.
|
| The subject was topical and honest (you can get articles
on flying), the
| website doesn't require a fee to access the articles,
you're not hit with
| pop-ups or other things, and the ads are just a sidebar.
The only area of
| concern are the tiny links that require you to register to
read the
| articles;
| that is quite often a means of harvesting and reselling
targetted e-mail
| addresses. (If you register to an aviation website, your
e-mail address is
| valuable for mass-mailers because they know when the
e-mail address was
| entered--"freshness"--and they know your hobby or
interest, which can be
| used for a number of things.)
|
| That's a little problematic, but, on the other hand,
considering the sheer
| amount of friggin' insurance policy junkmail I have to
deal with from the
| AOPA...
|
|
| -c
|
|

Jim Macklin wrote:
But the legit sites don't spam. There are web hosts that
run seminars on Internet marketing that teach suckers to use
newsgroups as advertising.



I not sure where you see that you have to register to read the art. I
Don't have that enable, and i don't need your email address to spam
anyone. I don't spam!!