medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Our world is a market place. You cannot avoid it. It confronts you
as you walk down the street or ride in a bus or car. Signs,
everywhere in every mode tell you to consume, consume and consume
more. It is omnipresent in the media, whether in the vidoscopic
stupidity we call television entertainment or the movies where we pay
admission to be assaulted with advertisements. It fills your mail box
every day. You hesitate to answer your own telephone for the dread of
"Is Cecil/Sam/Martha/Loise there? It is in the classroom with, "will
this be on test?" Information without a price is nothing. yrs, tom
ault
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:56:58 -0700
John McChesney-Young <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
>culture
>
> Postles, Dr D.A. had written in part:
>
>>>I'd like to get the feeling of the list about advertisements in some
>>>messages appended automatically by e-mail service providers...
>>> Is there any means by which
>>>correspondents can delete such messages before they are sent?
>
> and Dr. Gordon Arthur responded in part:
>
> ... I'm pretty sure senders can't do much about them.
>> As I understand it, the servers automatically add it to all outgoing
>>mail
>> from their accounts.
>
> Yes, some webmail providers earn money by selling advertising which
>goes
> at the bottom of all outgoing messages, or (as in this case) they
> advertise themselves in some fashion which they hope will eventually
> bring in money less directly. Microsoft owns Hotmail, so messages
>sent
> from Hotmail accounts will usually (always?) have MS advertisements
> appended.
>
> Although I don't like the idea of those advertisement, I have to
>admit
> that I don't notice them anymore; to me they're the textual
>equivalent
> of computer fans or refrigerator compressors: present but
>unregistered
> except when pointed out. I'm perfectly happy to continue to put up
>with
> them.
>
> If anyone on the list would like an invitation for a Gmail account:
>
> http://mail.google.com/mail/help/about.html
>
> I'd be glad to send one; just write me off-list. Gmail doesn't put
>ads
> at the bottom of messages sent, only at the bottom of web pages when
>you
> check your mail. Its interface is much less cluttered and offensive
>than
> Yahoo mail's (I don't use Hotmail and so can't compare it), messages
>are
> threaded, you get over 2.5GB of storage space -- and the size is
>continuously increasing -- and it's free.
>
>> I hope users do not find the PGP branding on my mails offensive:
>
> Not at all. It's almost as easy to ignore as the ads and it's a
>clever
> way to avoid the appearance of spamming, at least as long as your
> correspondents have come to expect a PGP signature.
>
> John
> --
>
>
> *** John McChesney-Young ** panis~at~pacbell.net ** Berkeley,
> California, U.S.A. ***
>
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