Tom,
When Josef complained to him about banner ads, and he made his reply, I think his intention was 2 things:
1) To clarify that the Datek ad is not a banner ad, and
2) To sincerely say that if any banner ads appear, to let him know.
Russ is CEO of Go2Net. He is NOT personally in charge of or overseeing SI on a daily basis. He could not possibly be involved then in every decision regarding changes to SI and would not necessarily know if banner ads were added.
Surely you must realize that Russ' role as CEO of Go2Net precludes him from personally managing SI, Metacrawler, Playsite, Stocksite, Haggle.com... etc. !! :)
Honestly, from all that I've heard about Russ: Witty? Yes. Sarcastic? No. He didn't get to his position by inflaming his supporters, or acting arrogant or haughty! In fact, I keep seeing references to his modesty and 'boyish charm'. (Which may annoy him, who knows? :)
I also don't think that when he or anyone else is going down the line when there are 2 million messages in the inbox that's he's thinking, "Hmmm... let me word this in such a way as to be sure that no one will misunderstand, misinterpret, mistake, miscommunicate... " :)
Best Wishes To You, Too, (Should that all be capitalized?) <g>
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