[THIN] Re: Unfriendliness of theThin website
- From: "Tyler Kinchen" <tyler.kinchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:35:31 -0500
I don't mind any of the ads on the thin. The site has been a great =
resource for me over the years and anything that helps allay your costs =
is fine by me. I just wanted to find out if you knew about that part of =
the ad and what it did. Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Tyler Kinchen
tkinchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Kenzig [mailto:jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:33 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Unfriendliness of theThin website
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> The trend one isn't an ad or a bug. It goes out to the trend=20
> site and pulls
> down the top ten viruses. The housecall button looks for a=20
> cookie it has
> set as to whether it has been previously run or not so it can=20
> call itself
> back up without having to reload the java applet so you can=20
> scan your drive.
> That is all. A lot of users myself included have found both items
> (housecall and the top ten virus list) to be of huge benefit.
> Regards,
> Jim Kenzig
> http://thethin.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Tyler Kinchen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:05 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Unfriendliness of theThin website
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> Jim, did you know you had a web bug on the thin? It=20
> looks like it's
> a =3D
> part of the Trend Ad based on the url. They probably=20
> included it in the =3D
> ad they gave you or the url that points to the ad. It=20
> doesn't look like =3D
> it does much other than send the thin name and the date in=20
> it. It may =3D
> be just for tracking how many eyeballs they get from the ad. =20
> Did they =3D
> tell you about that part of the ad? Just curious.
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> For those who don't know what web bugs are, look at =3D
> http://www.bugnosis.org/faq.html. I found the bug with the software =
=3D
> from http://www.bugnosis.org. I've been amazed (probably=20
> shouldn't be) =3D
> with the number of sites that use these things. =3D20
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> Regards,
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> Tyler Kinchen
> tkinchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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