Re: not really OT: eweek article 'Popup Ads Bad for Business'

[Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

"James Jones" wrote ...

> How in the world people could come up with such a way to annoy others is
> beyond me. I would tend to doubt that companies ever got back their
> investments in this technology. And I believe they must have laid out
> some pretty good bucks, judging from the relative sophistication of the
> technology. 

They outsourced the development to India. :-) 

Actually, the technology isn't very sophisticated. Any half-stoned web designer
with a Javascript book can code pop-ups. 

Andrew Plato 

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