Guest guest Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 OK... This is getting rediculous! While a variety of ads pop up on the bottom of emails coming through as part of the service, recently we have been receiving a constant supply of atkins ads. These are rather rediculous on a vegan raw food list. I've emailed regarding the inappropriate ads. Of course, we can just continue ignoring such ads for an unhealthy jubject, but it is an opportunity to educate and may resulting in removing the ads from our emails. Please take a moment (if willing) and go to this web address: http://help./help/us/groups/settings click on " ad feedback " at the very bottom, right side, answer the questions and add your comments regarding the atkins ad on our raw vegan email list. Please mention our list name/URL: RawSeattle/ (I don't recall if I referenced the list, other than after my signature. Thanks, Jeff PS: This was my note to them: Our is about raw vegan (plant-based) foods. The atkins ad is not just irrelevant, but distasteful. The ad seems to be appearing constantly on our emails. Most of us on our list recognize the atkins " diet " as very unhealthy. As we do not consume animal products, the atkins ad is very inappropriate. If possible please prevent the ads from appearing on our emails. Jeff Rogers Moderator/owner, RawSeattle PS: by far, most of our members are slender and have no need for any diet advice. A raw vegan diet is slimming for the overweight and boosts health, vitality and energy. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Just to present another angle, you have to remember that is providing this web space to us for free and it is sponsored by the advertisers. That is just part of life, we get it from radio and TV also. Personally, I ignore most ads on the Internet; I mute the TV usually during the commercials, and ignore most of the ads on the radio. If the ads are replusive to you, it might be good to complain, but if no advertisers can be found, the costs will be passed on to us. Most of the ads I hear/see on TV and radio are not very appropriate either. TV has a lot of commercials pushing drugs and a fast food materialistic lifestyle, or other TV programs to watch. But it's either that or getting the bill for what we hear/see. Ron Koenig Bellevue RawSeattle , Jeff Rogers <jeff@t...> wrote: > OK... This is getting rediculous! While a variety of ads pop up on > the bottom of emails coming through as part of the > service, recently we have been receiving a constant supply of atkins > ads. These are rather rediculous on a vegan raw food list. I've > emailed regarding the inappropriate ads. Of course, we can just > continue ignoring such ads for an unhealthy jubject, but it is an > opportunity to educate and may resulting in removing the ads > from our emails. > > Please take a moment (if willing) and go to this web address: > http://help./help/us/groups/settings click on " ad feedback " > at the very bottom, right side, answer the questions and add your > comments regarding the atkins ad on our raw vegan email list. Please > mention our list name/URL: RawSeattle/ > (I don't recall if I referenced the list, other than after my > signature. > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Actually, to me, those points are already givens. As I mentioned, the ads are normally ratated, but recently they seem to be consistantly atkins ads. I am sure that advertisers would appreciate their advertising dollars going to better use. The advertisers, as well as , will not know without feedback. Like I was saying it is an opportunity for us. may learn something about one of their groups (us) and about the effectiveness of their ads. We do not need to be repulsed by ads to share our comments. I, personally, don't pay much attention to ads, but am certainly willing to share some comments with them, especially if it may result in us not getting those ads. As a moderator, I would prefer more appropriate ads on our list, so as to not offend any of our members. I realize they may just pool all their available ads, which then pop up on all their email groupd' emails. They do use computors, so should be able to better assign their ads. Jeff >Just to present another angle, you have to remember that is >providing this web space to us for free and it is sponsored by the >advertisers. That is just part of life, we get it from radio and TV >also. Personally, I ignore most ads on the Internet; I mute the TV >usually during the commercials, and ignore most of the ads on the >radio. If the ads are replusive to you, it might be good to >complain, but if no advertisers can be found, the costs will be >passed on to us. > >Most of the ads I hear/see on TV and radio are not very appropriate >either. TV has a lot of commercials pushing drugs and a fast food >materialistic lifestyle, or other TV programs to watch. But it's >either that or getting the bill for what we hear/see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 I say NO to Cencorship! What is going on ? What a waste of precious time! Whats NEXT? seriosly??? This kind of thinking always freaks me out! If it was our private board then we wouldnt have such a problem. But its not... and i find it a HUGE embaracment to be so intolarant when we are using this for free! what kind of snobs are we becoming? I am not sure i want to be apart of this .. this is the reason i left christianity.. it is this kind of attitude I find most evil of all. - " Jeff Rogers " <jeff <RawSeattle > Tuesday, February 24, 2004 2:38 PM [RawSeattle] Re: Atkins ads on email list > Actually, to me, those points are already givens. As I mentioned, the > ads are normally ratated, but recently they seem to be consistantly > atkins ads. I am sure that advertisers would appreciate their > advertising dollars going to better use. The advertisers, as well as > , will not know without feedback. Like I was saying it is an > opportunity for us. may learn something about one of their > groups (us) and about the effectiveness of their ads. We do not need > to be repulsed by ads to share our comments. I, personally, don't pay > much attention to ads, but am certainly willing to share some > comments with them, especially if it may result in us not getting > those ads. As a moderator, I would prefer more appropriate ads on our > list, so as to not offend any of our members. I realize they may just > pool all their available ads, which then pop up on all their email > groupd' emails. They do use computors, so should be able to better > assign their ads. > > Jeff > > > >Just to present another angle, you have to remember that is > >providing this web space to us for free and it is sponsored by the > >advertisers. That is just part of life, we get it from radio and TV > >also. Personally, I ignore most ads on the Internet; I mute the TV > >usually during the commercials, and ignore most of the ads on the > >radio. If the ads are replusive to you, it might be good to > >complain, but if no advertisers can be found, the costs will be > >passed on to us. > > > >Most of the ads I hear/see on TV and radio are not very appropriate > >either. TV has a lot of commercials pushing drugs and a fast food > >materialistic lifestyle, or other TV programs to watch. But it's > >either that or getting the bill for what we hear/see. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 You can change the format of messages that you receive to Plain Text instead of HTML. The Atkins ad only seem to be one with picture, and the Plain Text version does not display picture. 1) Go to http://www./ and log in 2) Select RawSeattle from the menu at the left 3) Select Edit My Membership at the right 4) Select Do not convert to HTML at the bottom 5) Select Save Changes button. Good luck Graham -- " Jury duty? No problem. Just pass me my bottle of durian cologne. " > service, recently we have been receiving a constant supply of atkins > ads. These are rather rediculous on a vegan raw food list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 I seem to have stumbled onto this by default somehow because I was wondering what ads people were referring to! Thanks for the info Graham, and for the chuckle at the end of your post. Nora " Graham W. Boyes " wrote: > You can change the format of messages that you receive to Plain Text > instead of HTML. The Atkins ad only seem to be one with picture, and > the Plain Text version does not display picture. > > 1) Go to http://www./ and log in > 2) Select RawSeattle from the menu at the left > 3) Select Edit My Membership at the right > 4) Select Do not convert to HTML at the bottom > 5) Select Save Changes button. > > Good luck > Graham > -- > " Jury duty? No problem. Just pass me my bottle of durian cologne. " > > > service, recently we have been receiving a constant supply of atkins > > ads. These are rather rediculous on a vegan raw food list. > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2004 Report Share Posted February 25, 2004 there's also no ads if you receive the digest format... ps... hey graham... where did you get your durian cologne :^D norm )~ ...... The problem is not that there are traces of pesticides left in our foods; The problem is that there are only traces of nutrition left in our foods! ..... Steve Solomon > " Graham W. Boyes " <e01 > RE: Atkins ads on email list > > You can change the format of messages that you receive to Plain Text > instead of HTML. The Atkins ad only seem to be one with picture, and > the Plain Text version does not display picture. > > 1) Go to http://www./ and log in > 2) Select RawSeattle from the menu at the left > 3) Select Edit My Membership at the right > 4) Select Do not convert to HTML at the bottom > 5) Select Save Changes button. > > Good luck > Graham > -- > " Jury duty? No problem. Just pass me my bottle of durian cologne. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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