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To: David Harker who wrote (11006)	6/11/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: Ron Dior	Respond to of 29970

<<I want fast access to the "Regular Unfiltered" Internet, not some bundled content with ads. I'm sure I'm not the only one out there who agrees w/ Ahhaha on this one - internet ads will be ignored by many... I'm not investing any money in any company whose plans include making a profit off internet ads..>> Ideally Dave this would be correct. Absence of ad's or commercials would be great, but is it reasonable? I had posted this earlier: "These content providers do have the means to make you sit through online commercials if they want to. Easy enough you say, if they do that I just won't be bothered with their service! Ah, but what if you really like their service? What if I liked it so much that you would put up with these foolish interruptions during usage? Think about it, this is the same reason that we (the public) sit through advertisement after advertisement on T.V., isn't it?" If they provide sites that are addicting and interesting enough, do not think for a minute that they won't be shoving ad's down your throat. The only other way that they could go about it would be Ahhaha's theory on a pay per view type system. How many people would rather sit through some ad's than pay for the service??? Ron Dior

To: David Harker who wrote (11006)	6/11/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

Think for a minute what you have said and the long term concequences of it if true: The internet is already "fulfilling its promise" I, and many others I know, don't even LOOK at the annoying ads filling little areas of my browser window I just bring up Netscape w/ "my.yahoo" as the homepage How do you think my.yahoo pays for itself? You know of course it pays for itself by advertising. If advertising fails yahoo! fails. How do you think AOL pays for itself? You think the $10/month they get covers all the content aggregation and creation they do? If yahoo and all others like it fail what happens to the usage of the net? The net will nowhere near "fulfill its promise". You cannot simply avoid those things that rely on advertising, the whole net as we know it will come crashing down with it. Eric