From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 3 17:12:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29603 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:12:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29589; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:12:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA14861; Sun, 3 May 1998 20:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:07:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Eivind Eklund , mph@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources In-Reply-To: <199805032255.PAA15279@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 3 May 1998, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > to make matter worse, the quantity of commericals constantly > increase.... Brand/product awareness advertising has its place in a well-functioning society. It's an expression of confidence in a product by a company. There is an argument to be made that it is too common for the health of the nation, but I don't think comparisons to TV count (nevermind that you neglect the fact that there is, like it or not, market demand for the TV shows you cite) since the limited TV bandwidth available limits the competition among broadcasters. That said, you still may have a point, but until you show me that the ad revenue is not needed by those profitting from it currently, I disagree. :) It may be worthwhile to differentiate between information providers, a-la news, entertainment, and service-providers such as Yahoo. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message