From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 25 2:53:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web11101.mail.yahoo.com (web11101.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9123037B41A for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 02:53:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20011225105326.50305.qmail@web11101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [207.14.67.182] by web11101.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 02:53:26 PST Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 02:53:26 -0800 (PST) From: Farmer Ted Subject: Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good site? To: pr@kana.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear yahoo contributor, I would like to say this before I get to the reason I am sending this email. I think that yahoo.com is the most versitile search engine/homepage on the internet today. I have had the site as my homepage from the first day I started using the internet years ago, and I have no plans to change that as of right now. The only reason this email is going to this address is because I had a very hard time finding a "suggestions for yahoo" section on their site. I decided it might get some attention this way. That said, I will get to the point. I feel that too many sites start out with good ideas and a good format, get very popular, and then get greedy or "commercial". I really like the services that yahoo provides for virtually free. I do feel that yahoo has started to loose some of it's fans among the people I talk to. I do not want this to happen because of something most people have learned to deal with until it's common practice, at which time some lower class search engine tries to steal the fame with a "are you tired of pop-ups" slogan. ______________________________________________ The following is an email I wrote to send to yahoo. When I went to their site I only found a couple email addresses to send it to, and those weren't really to someone in the suggestion field. Please feel free to forward this to anyone from yahoo.com to whom this concerns. ______________________________________________ Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good site? (subject) To whom it may concern: I realize that a web site, such as yahoo.com, that is well maintained and is ever-expanding must spend a considerable amount of money, and it has every right to make a profit. Being Christmas Eve, I spent a nice evening with my whole family tonight. This is a rare thing about 360 days of the year in today's competitive world. I turned on my pc to say merry christmas to my friends online. I open a instant messenger and I have one of those annoying but now accepted messages from someone I never have talked to before that contains a url to a website. I went to the site and was instantly a pop up window gone insane victim. I felt this was a great christmas gift from a stranger. I thought it was only right I should return the thought. I went to my homepage, the one I have always had as homepage(yahoo), and do a search on morals for a good site to url them. Well I get a pop up advertisement. I may be just ranting a little, but I think that pop up windows are such a disgrace to the reason the internet was established. I have always been a supporter of yahoo.com, and still will be. I always tell friends to "go to yahoo and search for___". When I seen the first pop up from yahoo a few months back I remember thinking to myself "I never thought a site like yahoo would use a pop up" and shaking my head in disappointment. watcherrules@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message