From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3ee2bb51{at}w3.nls.net...
> The trouble is that they don't know if it's invalid or not, so it
> doesn't discourage anything.

They do know it if I'm 300+ years old and make 3 Euros a year, and my title
is "Ruler of the Existenze"... I try to be clear that I did not
give proper information, just because of that. I want them to be able to
notice the protest.


> I have no problem with it because it doesn't hurt me and if
> they provided something I found useful, why not...

Because it will lead to more stuff being "targeted" at specific
audiences, which so far (IMO) has only lead to boringly pre-chewed stuff.
It's like half the films which have been manuscripted by marketoids to
"best fit the target audience", and turn out terribly boring. I
want to be in charge of what I get to see & read instead of someone who
has calculated what I am like and what I will therefor like. I want to be
able to find out what I am not supposed to like, and maybe be pleasantly
surprised every now and then.

Does that make any sense? I know it's not *that* big a deal, but still...


Antti Kurenniemi

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