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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6122046.stm

Oh joy!

They don't like it up 'em, they don't!

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/te6122046.stm

Oh joy!

They don't like it up 'em, they don't!

Nothing to do with this group - shame you never used a decent firewall to
stop outgoing connections and a HOSTS file to stop popups.


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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 22:26:48 -0000, "Brian"
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/te6122046.stm

Oh joy!

They don't like it up 'em, they don't!

Nothing to do with this group - shame you never used a decent firewall to
stop outgoing connections and a HOSTS file to stop popups.

I wondered why it never appeared in the proper group!

Or perhaps I posted it here to give a thick rude ****er like you an
opportunity to feel big and post his half-yearly put-down.

Apologies to everyone else. )

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EricP wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6122046.stm

Oh joy!

They don't like it up 'em, they don't!


"Keith Smith, CEO of Zango, said: "Early in our business, and as we've
acknowledged, we relied too heavily on our affiliates to enforce our
consumer notice and consent policies.

"Unfortunately, this allowed deceptive third parties to exploit our
system to the detriment of consumers, our advertisers and our
publishing partners. We deeply regret and apologize for the resulting
negative impact. "

AKA "Honest gov; I didn't know."

It wasn't the " 6.9 billion pop-up ads." that alerted them apparently
but a memo form the accounts department when they got the bill from the
legal department.

(AKA "money talks".)

Unfortunately all the sods will do is go elsewhere and peddle their
trash. I see Sony is still in business. They got away with offering
replacement disks for all the damage they did. As if you'd want another
disk from *******s like that.

But the buzz died down and people still buy from them. You can see why
corrupt idiots can get to the top of anything from politics to big
business can't you? In the good old days people like that would either
be crowned king or whipped and put in the stocks.

Nothing like a rant in the middle of the night is there?

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