To: Russell C. Horowitz who wrote (1454)	6/19/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) of 28305
Permanent datek.com or other ads on SI member pages? No: Elect to permanently turn off advertising banners --#reply-10170654. (3) We will not bombard you with banner advertising or other forms of solicitation. Specifically, banner ads will not be placed in the message boards for members (If we do, you will have the ability to turn them off)." --#reply-4174238. Then: http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=4173961 siliconinvestor.com Message 5871788 Message 5871894 Message 5871909 Message 6289101 Message 6289254 Message 6289362 Now: The http://www.datek.com ad, no "Disable Ads" button, and SILENCE - for days. Ergo: "Disable Ads" button for members, please - yesterday. "Ads Coming to SI" notice to members, please - day before yesterday. P.S. What We Think: Internet Rewrites Rules Of Public Relations Game webergroup.com P.P.S. I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go. --Oscar Wilde on his death bed in a cheap Paris hotel, one month before he died on the same bed. --#reply-10170080 Ditto.

To: Josef Svejk who wrote (7661)	6/19/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Russell C. Horowitz	Read Replies (5) of 28305
Josef, There should not be any banner ads appearing in member areas. We recognize the commitment that has been made to SI members, and we also recognize that the speed of the SI experience cannot be compromised by large graphics. If you have seen any banner ads please let me know. Thanks, Russell

To: Russell C. Horowitz who wrote (7676)	6/19/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 28305
Svejk began: 'Nothing remains hidden in the world. Everything comes to light in the end, as you've heard, and it even turns out that an idiotic jay like that is not a nutcracker. It's really very interesting that anyone could be taken in by a trick like that. It's true that inventing animals is a difficult thing to do, but presenting animals which have been invented is really much harder. Once some years ago in Prague there was a chap called Mested who discovered a mermaid and exhibited her behind a screen in Havlicek Street in Vinohrady. In the screen there was an opening, and everybody could see in the half-light a common or garden sofa with a woman from Zizkov sprawling on it. Her legs were wrapped up in green gauze, which was supposed to represent a tail. Her hair was painted green and she had gloves on her hands with cardboard fins fitted on them, which were also green. And on her spine she had a kind of rudder fixed with a cord. Young people under sixteen sere not allowed in, but all those who were over sixteen and had paid for their tickets were absolutely delighted to find that that mermaid had enormous buttocks on which was the inscription: "Au revoir!" As for her breasts they were nothing to shout about. They flopped down to her stomach like a worn out trollop's. As seven o'clock in the evening Mested shut the panorama and said: "Mermaid, you can go home." She changed and already at ten o'clock at night you could see her walking up and down Taborska Street and saying quite unobtrusively to every gentleman she met: "Darling, what about coming and playing Philopena with me?" Because she didn't have a registration book Drasner locked her up with other tarts like her he had caught in a raid, and Mested lost his business.' Svejk saluted outside the windows of the carriage and departed. amazon.com