[12002] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: Thank you re Green Card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (WJCarpenter)
Fri Apr 29 23:22:11 1994
Date: Fri 29 Apr 1994 22:54:31 +0000
From: billc@pegasus.mail.att.net (WJCarpenter)
In-Reply-To: Marianne P. Lavelle's note of 14:57:18, 29 Apr 1994
To: mlavelle@cap.gwu.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
mlavelle> Thank you to all the many, many of you who responded
mlavelle> graciously and informatively to my question about the Green
mlavelle> Card incident. I rarely see such unanimity on any
mlavelle> subject--Everyone agrees that it was not the commercial
mlavelle> itself but the intrusive, in fact, devastating, method they
Don't lose sight of this though ... if they hadn't used such an
annoying method to post their advertisement, there would still have
been a lot of commotion about it. It's just that they were so
in-your-face with how they did it that it kind of dominated the
discussion.
A commercial posting to most of the places where they put their
advertisement would still have drawn much discussion and reaction. We
see it over and over again. Two things that I think helped people to
be particularly annoyed ... (1) they seemed to know what they were
doing, and posting the way the did was not some simple mechanical
error; (2) the subject matter/phrasing of the advertisement had a
connotation of sleazy/predatory business practices for a great many
readers. (A third factor was, of course, that they were of the
unfavored Lawyer class, but you knew that already.)
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