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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2005-07-12 15:00:38
subject: Re: home page changing

From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:25:35 -0400, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> news:op.str8cqxceipai0{at}news.barkto.com...
>> I like Opera and it's my regular browser.  I have to say that someone at
>> Drudge Reports seems to have figured out how to get around the popup
>> protection.
>
> I've taken on a habit of emailing such sites with a polite "I notice that
> you have gone to great lengths to make my visits to your site as painful
> as
> possible by the use of popups, and with very clever technigues to
> prevent my
> popup-blocker from working. Well congratulations, the site is finally too
> annoying to read, so you now have one less user visiting your site.
> Goodbye.".
>
> I don't really think it'll work, but I do it just in case someone
> honestly
> hasn't thought about how damn annoying all those ads are.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>

I'd rather hassle OperaSoft about it as it's more likely to result in my
satisfaction.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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