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May 25th 06, 03:35 PM
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what's up with eham?
"Dr. Anton T. Squeegee" wrote in message .. . In article , (known to some as Geoffrey S. Mendelson) scribed... Dave Platt wrote: Looks as if the server's off the air. Couldn't happen to nicer people in my opinion. When I complained that they had Google ads on their site which directly supported BPL, the owner of the site told me that BPL was an INTERNET technology and since his site was RADIO related, it wasn't his concern. boggle Sheesh... If the site comes back up, I'm yanking my account. I must not have seen the ads thanks to my ad blockers... He also said that without Google ads, he could not keep the site alive, so he choose Google and BPL. Fooey. There have to be other ads he can have up there without supporting a spectrum-destructive technology. The website owner doesn't choose the ads to appear, Google does that automatically, based on keywords. But Google adSense has a filter option to trash any undesired ad. A simple matter to put the "offending" ad in the filter list. Eham has been a valuable resource for hams. With the high cost of running a Mega Site such as eham, I suggest we support the site, otherwise it may go away. You will notice a lot of the Ham Megasites are using Google AdSense. Why? It is bloody expensive to run a megasite. When the site gets popular, a "Normal" provider will add outrageous costs for excess bandwidth, forcing a web master to get a server. Servers ain't cheap. There are other costs as well, main provider, link checkers, domain name costs, computer maintenance, anti-virus checkers, software, etc.This says nothing about the Web Master's labor to keep the site running. Many of the mega sites are free - such a deal. AND - you buy a magazine -- full of ads, Movie rental - full of ads, cable TV - full of ads, etc. I suspect the ads income on Mega Sites don't come near the covering the cost of running a Mega Site. Even if it did, so what - you don't have to click on the ads or read them. Can't do that with magazines (;-) The BPL ads -- maybe run your own Anti-BPL ad Huh -- CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be ! |
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