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On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Hoort, Brian wrote: > I'm aware of that argument, but I don't believe that it holds as much > weight in practice as it may appear at first blush. I agree. how many people use pop up blockers now? Did that put a dent in advertising yes. but has it resurfaced elsewhere again? yes. This is the real question.. Is it more important to save the university money rather then supporting the free services with every 100th or 1000th ad display? A 200k(low end?) 20-200Megs of data to give the advertiser 10 cents. How much does that cost the university? (i don't know, but at some point, it is cheaper to send the people a check.) It also would be interesting to find out how many tech support spyware issues we have related to slow computers caused by stuff that we would be blocking. IE how much time/money is spent trying to get rid of the spyware/crap on the computers in the first place and at what cost. A firefox plugin, will only work with firefox, that doesn't include IE/safari users, IM users, etc. If you take the idea to the nth degree, and have ads.msu.edu, we also circumvent an issue of people wanting to use the listserv to send spam to advertise their events. It, however, won't reach the offcampus students nearly as effectively. -------------------------------------- Sean O'Malley, Information Technologist Michigan State University -------------------------------------