Perhaps It's A Good Site
-- But We Won't Link To It
(unsigned)
From:
To: Positive Atheism
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:19 PM
Subject: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
Hello, I run a mediocre Atheism newsletter out of Coral Springs, Florida. I just thought maybe I could get a plug from this magazine.
http://activeatheists.tsx.org/
I have produced eight issues, and there will be more.
p.s. It's not just an Atheism mag right now. It was developed around that idea and that is still the main focus, but I also have a lot to say about other stuff that I'm putting in there.
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To:
Subject: Re: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
Date: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:48 PM
The link you gave me made several extra browser windows pop up with commercial advertisements, etc. (not just one -- and one extra window is too many for us). It took me almost a minute to figure out which end was up. Then, after I closed them all, more kept popping up. It was very confusing and excessively intrusive: this is not our idea of good Internet -- almost as bad as the "Send An Angel" postcard that James Call sent to us.
We do not put links to sites that do this in our Web Guide. If you can clear this up, we'd be more than glad to put a link in for you, but we care about our readers and wouldn't intentionally link to a site that literally makes their browser explode with commercial advertisements and other things -- particularly the delayed-reaction windows that open in response to your closing another window.
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Five years of service to
people with no reason to believe
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To:
Subject: Re: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
Date: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:54 PM
My god! Five minutes later and I'm still getting more windows! Most insidious! Time to reboot!
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Five years of service to
people with no reason to believe
From:
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
I understand completely, that's just the way my redirection service works. They flood people with ads like that.
I'm sure that if you look at the actual page with no redirection there is only one small pop-up ad.
http://www.geocities.com/activeatheists/index.html
I just wanted the name to be a little more memorable than all that.
From: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
To:
Subject: Re: Positive_Atheism_Letters_Section
Date: Saturday, June 16, 2001 7:39 AM
That's more like it! I actually had to reboot after visiting the other link. I'll post this one. Thanks!
Cliff Walker
"Positive Atheism" Magazine
Five years of service to
people with no reason to believe
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