Yellowchaser wrote in
:
If you
look through the past posts We posted letting everyone on the
newsgroups know that we had setup things up, but no one cared to hear
it.
Are you talking about this?
http://groups-
beta.google.com/group/rec.outdoors.fishing.bass/browse_frm/thread/c3f4903
9e14de054/e02caddd58782eca?q=hookandsinker+group:*.bass&rnum =1
&hl=en#e02caddd58782eca
I must have missed the part where you said you would be providing a
usenet web portal without identifying it as such, and telling advertisers
about it in such a way that usenet traffic appears to be attributed to
your site.
I don't care what sort of VALID stuff gets posted to the usenet through
your site, so long as its not the kind of crap that Fishman was posting
(extending you the courtesy for the moment of not assuming that you ARE
Fishman, or that Fishman works for or with you in some way--This crap
didn't come from a normal user, who would have to be absolutely insane to
use a web portal interface to post bulk usenet messages!!). I don't even
care if you claim copyright to the Bible to your advertisers.
I do care if the groups I frequent get filled up by crap to the point of
being useless. This is what every group would look like if other people
who had the idea of profiting to a targeted group of usenet readers using
a free medium actually went and implemented it. I also care that you're
claiming MY usenet activity as a hook into your advertisers.
Your site generated about 50 useless messages from somebody else's RSS
feed (yeah, HE'S absolutely thrilled about it!!), and you haven't
apologized, either to him or to other readers--claims of not being
responsible for the crap posted through your site notwithstanding.
You've got ****loads of nerve complaining about all the negative feedback
this has generated, especially as it's raising your hits off the chart.
You've also got all sorts of nerve telling me my claims can be hazardous!
I've looked at your advertising description, and you're claiming that
usenet posts are somehow related to traffic on your site. It's not true.
There could be billions of posts, without ever having a single visitor to
your site. Suggesting anything else to your advertisers is wrong.
Here's some other little gems from your website's advertising link:
"Hook & SinkerŪ provides you with your own web interface to monitor your
ad campaign(s) with unbelievable detail, including Hourly Times, IP
Addresses, Adviews, Origin Country, CTR, and more. Take control over your
investment and see how your personalized ad campaign is working for you!
Ask some of our competitors how they provide you with a real-time
solution to monitor your advertising campaign and likely they will not
have a clue what you are talking about. You will have your own secure
sign-in to our Exclusive! Advertising Management System."
No wonder why you don't have a privacy statement!!
Long and the short of it is, nobody would have anything to say if crap
weren't spewing from your site.
Scott