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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Robinett who wrote (11314)	9/27/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: Art Stone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

AOL just signed a contract with CBS to promote CBS's program schedule, by popping up a screen at logoff - even if the member/customer/sucker has marketing preferences turned off. When the complaints started rolling in, AOL's response was that this was a new "feature" for its customers. AOL's spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg actually characterized it this way: "This is not a pop-up," said Goldberg. "Pop-ups are single purpose ads that you have to click off. It's not a pop-up but just another screen." Next, AOL's PR dept will be arguing over the meaning of the word "is".