Pop-Ups

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Dear Advertisers: Somebody had to to this [:D]

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And what about if some day we didn’t have a forum anymore?Two pop-ups per log-in isn’t so bad considering what this forums costs its users.Don’t you think?

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As originally posted under " enough already " topic:

I find it hard to believe that someone offers you a FREE forum to ask questions, share your ideas,and
learn a thing or two, and then you complain about pop-ups. If this site depended on your contributions
or dues to operate then you might have a leg to stand on. They offer this forum as a service to you.
Someone has to pay for it. And they pay for it through advertising.Dave

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I was fed up with pop-ups so I put in a program to stop them, pretty soon the program was a bigger pain than the pop-ups. I got rid of it.

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I have used “Pop-up Stopper” from panicware.com so long I didn’t know they had a popups on the forum.

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LOL me to, so what’s a pop up? if i ever get to a site that does do pop ups for displaying stuff, i can simply turn it off for a minute and turn it right back on, all from the convience iof the tray.

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Hate them.
I installed an anti-program to get rid of them.
NORTON MAKES IT.

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I used to sell broadcast advertising so I am sympathetic to advertising, but I usually don’t even read the pop ups before I close them.

Ed

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I use a pop-up stopper from Yahoo - is excellent. I have others installed, but this is the only one that stops them all.

MR’s pop-ups are at least relevant, so I don’t mind so much. I’d prefer the message be on the page, like today “Enter the Classic Toy Trains 2004 Sweepstakes!” is on the home page of Trains.com, and something I’d like to enter. And they got my attention without the pop-up.

-Jer

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I clicked “What is a pop-up” because I don’t get any here, and never have. Maybe it has something to do with my Norton Internet Security set up, I don’t know. But in general, there has to be a better and less irritating way to advertise. BTW, I call Geocities the home of the pop up because that’s where I first started seeing them a couple years back and they’re still there today. Consequently, it is EXTREMELY rare for me to look at a site on Geocities because of this.

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Atlas has operated a forum for 8 plus years without a shred of advertising. Just a simple part of doing business. Customer relations are still important and some businesses preserve that relationship without annoying assaults.