Re: [Paddlewise] Paddling with my Dog - signature files

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:42:44AM -0800, Jackie Myers wrote:
> of free email accounts.  In the past, we have discussed the
> idea of banning free accounts because of the tacked-on ads.
> I agree it's *very* annoying.  But it would be a very quiet
> list.  We tried filtering them but it also made for a great
> deal more work for the "highly-paid" moderator.

Let me chime in and mention that it's NOT easy to filter them,
and one reason it's not easy is that the services which insert
them don't want to make it easy: think about it. ;-)

Yes, sometimes it makes for unfortunate juxtapositions.  The
same thing happens with search engines as well: a search
of Google's archive of the Usenet newsgroup news.admin.net-abuse.email
will often cause ads promoting the same spamware that's being
vilified, much to the chagrin of those posting the articles.

---Rsk