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From: Howard Wooten <hwooten@...> 
Date: Sat May 18, 2002 2:40pm 
Subject: Re: LAM: I am REALLY hanging out for Logic and Emagic
midi-drivers on OS X  



>   From: "johnpitcairn" <johnp@r...>

>Rant-mode back on....
>
>No, I didn't post that twice. Yahoo really does suck. Why are we 
>here again?
>
>On a related topic, I nuked the "accept marketing crap" Yahoo 
>pref as soon as I discovered they'd turned it back on without 
>telling us, but the day or two it was on gave then enough time to 
>sell my email address to a bunch of spam-merchants, all of 
>whom of course have numerous "affiliates". Spam-count has 
>gone up by a factor of about ten in the last 2-3 months. If those of 
>you in the USA wonder why people in other countries dislike the 
>USA so much, this is just one reason - your culture invented this 
>sort of marketroid shit.


 Well... at least you didn't use the word hate.

 We invented gravity as well.

 But I agree... marketing/advertising has become the armpit of the
business
 world, and rightfully so. As far as I can tell there is no low that
 -most- marketing/advertising companies will not stoop below.
 If it increases sales, it is somehow justified.... yecchhhhh! 

 howard