Re: I don't like these ads either!!! TEST

[Guest guest]

Plus the text wraps badly, like an old, badly copied email.

here's an idea - see below

space past the ad, post our messages here, and at least it isn't

sitting directly on the right, catching and annoying our peripheral

vision with every message.

> Aubin - no, they mean that something has changed in just the last

few

> days. I do not like receiving messages via email, and I just come

to

> the board on my own time to read up on the latest. When you go into

a

> message to read it online, at , there were always ads on the

top

> and bottom of every message - on the screen. However, now there is

a

> big fat add on the right of the screen RIGHT IN THE POST, usually

> animated to that it distracts your eye, and further, it also cuts

the

> email text into half the size it was.

>

> That's new, and yes, it's annoying. It's one thing to put it above

> and below the message, but now it actually sits INSIDE the message.

>

> They continue to push, push push... Lynne

>

> --- In @y..., Aubin Parrish <aubinparrish@y...>

wrote:

> > (Temporary moderator speaking) I'm not sure what ads

> > you're referring to. Are they being sent to your

> > email inbox? Are you reading this list on line at the

> > site and they pop up when you open a message?

> > I'm not getting any ads sent to my email, except the

> > kind that are just a line of text at the bottom of the

> > email (i.e. our Visa has the lowest rates! or some

> > such, with a link to click on) but those aren't new.

> > When I look at the messages on line the only ads I see

> > are the ones that come up on the same page as the

> > message, same ads that have always been there, nothing

> > new and not a separate pop-up. Can you elaborate? If

> > they're coming to you through , I don't know if

> > anything can be done about it, because it's a free

> > service and that's how they make money (advertising

> > dollars). The only suggestion I have is to change

> > your preferences to get plain text email

> > instead of HTML. Go to " edit my membership " and under

> > " message format " select " do not convert to HTML " .

> >

> > Aubin

> >

> > __________________________________________________

> >