From: Gary Miller (garymiller@starband.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 12:26:51 MDT
>> I almost feel like warning everyone to stay away from this vote
because its a trap, but I doubt the >> original site knows or cares what
its advertisers are doing to its visitors.
Sorry, I never even noticed. I thought everybody in the known universe
had aleady caught on to using Popup-Stopper by now! Run don't walk to
www.panicware.com and down load popup-stopper today!
And for the next 60 seconds they might even throw in a free Ginsu knife!
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Harvey Newstrom
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:48 AM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: RE: Distributed Computing Project Popularity
Gary Miller wrote,
> Survey at
> http://koti.mbnet.fi/aquarius/links/link_distributedpower.html
>
> After you vote you can view results!
Not only that, but everybody who votes is a
> WINNER! <
> WINNER!! <
> WINNER!!! <
for....
$1000! A thousand dollars. YAY!
But you must call within the next 3 minutes to get your prize... And
it's not in cash, its coupons. And you can't redeam your coupons
without buying a vacation package....
Also, you can't close the advertisement window, because it uses
JavaScript to open another ad as soon as you close that one.
I almost feel like warning everyone to stay away from this vote because
its a trap, but I doubt the original site knows or cares what its
advertisers are doing to its visitors.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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