The Fight Rages For Control Of The Mighty AD! By Bobbette Madonna Copyright 2003 "The spider looks for a merchant who doesn't advertise so he can spin a web across his door and lead a life of undisturbed peace." - Mark Twain Ads are everywhere: Tons of them are in and on TV, magazines, radio, newspapers, rag-mags, fliers, brochures, and the Internet. It is not going away. The mighty AD is here to stay. Millions have made a fortune with ads. There are good and bad ads, small and large ads, you name it, it exists. THE MIGHTY AD. Many enjoy certain ads. We have accepted them as a part of life. Not so on the Internet. Our newest frontier is not a baby anymore. It is however, a place where it is hard to distinguish between truth and lies, good and evil and men and women. Just who IS at the other end of that email? What gave birth to - 'kill the email ADS'? Many don't like ads and to get even the malcontent sends off complaints to spamcop and/or other rouge wanna-be cops. They 'feel good' about themselves. No one knows who did it and they feel 'safe’ behind their monitor. Some make it their business and subscribe to ezines just to file complaints against the publisher. They enjoy the cheap thrill of the carnage they have caused for the person targeted for injustice by such as spamcop. Spamcop (Julian Haight) (http://spamcop.net/) won't tell who complained! Why would he? He doesn't want anyone to find out the person who complained really did subscribe to that ezine or asked for that information. He'd be out of business. Knowing that the ISP doesn't want involved in all that 'due process' stuff he knows he is safe. What are a couple thousand businesses being shut down mean to an ISP? NATA! And, Haight makes money. Another man with good intentions, corrupted by the buck. With all the new 'creators of Internet law' coming onboard, like Habeas, Inc., one wonders just who the heck IS in charge of OUR life! Think about it - ISPs can shut you down at will - anytime they want to! http://www.cnet.com/internet/0-3762-8-6260785-3.html Habeas is partnering with the big money entities to charge you for sending email! All Habeas, Inc. Information: http://www.i-Cop.org/habeas/ Spamcop takes any complaint as the devil's gospel and orders a shut down by your ISP! Our answer to spamcop when he sent his ‘for your comfort’ spam email – http://www.shopmystate.com/logon/Library/Swami-090301.html Filtering software gurus send your email to the dump (before you see it) for a simple word like - AD... http://www.search.com/Infoseek/1,135,0,0200.html?QUERY=spam&COLL=CI People have no rights from the ISP point of view, spamcop hates all ecommerce (I've talked to him), Anne Mitchell of Habeas is moving on up to the penthouse with all her maneuverings to make millions from every business online. Her style and the way she explains and justifies her business tells me a lot about her. She is a lawyer and remember, power corrupts even the best of intentions – Proven by hindsight. What is going on here? It's called positioning for POWER! Spews, spamcop, CAUSE, Habeas and others are taking control of how we do business on the Internet. ISPs don't want bothered with that so they allow shutdowns to happen. They don't have to face anyone or a court of law. They all have the power and knowledge to create hell for the rest of us. What happens to small business offline (Wal-Mart moves to town) has stormed the Internet. Behind the scenes, in those corporate war rooms or at kitchen tables, THEY plan how to take over the competition, crush the little guy, take away entrepreneurial freedoms of the small businessperson - for profit and convince others it is the right thing to do. This 'take over' mentality always rises to the top as does scum. The Internet media and business web sits, with lists, are the targets. They want us out and they are winning. We all know that the big guys will help them. Hey, they want a piece of the pie (money) for themselves and the kickbacks flow. They are orchestrating a take over, working together and more are jumping onboard everyday. They ARE making money and secret combinations are being set up every day to get their hands on our money. This all started because of ADS. Some like to call it UCE or spam. Wrong! It's ADS! That is what makes money. They know it and they are fighting to eliminate the competition – that's us. They send out ADS themselves telling us how much we are going to love what they are doing for us by saving us from spam. I get spam ads from Haight now and then and I delete them like I do all spam ads. Why are there so many ADS? Simply because people BUY things from ADS. Wow, what a concept. Why don't these anti-business zealots work on how to get rid of porn and hate sites instead of small time ad senders? Could it be that those enterprises are paying them big bucks to be taken out of their sights? Do I smell a kickback? Porn can't be stopped. All these do-gooders popping up will NOT stop ADS. Nothing will - short of all ISPs pulling plugs and that won't happen. They want only certain entities to be able to send ADS. Those will be only the people who JOIN them in their takeover. Count on that! The dragon has been set loose. There is no stopping it's greed. Freedom to conduct business without interference is a thing of the past on the Internet. The little AD has brought out the anti-capitalists and e-commerce haters, fast buck opportunists and crooks to do their thing and take AD senders down. They see a good thing and they want it! What do we do? Most of us will just ride it out. Some will quit. If we are shut down, we will wonder what happened as there is nothing we can do about it. Some are looking into joining this or that in an attempt to save our businesses. We have read the sites and email warnings and we know we can't fight it alone. We are sitting ducks for them. We don't have control over someone filing a complaint with spamcop or some other self-appointed moneymaker. We can't stop the Mitchell's from setting up dynasties by controlling one ISP after another to do their bidding for the bucks. What we do is - wait. The government will take over the way things are done. The powers that are struggling for top spot now will force that to happen. People are going to get mad. They will go to congress to stop the opportunity mongers from taking over email and the ever-prolific AD. So, looks like the most powerful thing in all this mess is the - AD. When was the last time you bought something from an ad you received in an email? When is the last time you sent an ad? There, see what I mean? The goal of the ‘save the Internet’ types is not ridding the Internet of spam, it's control of the Mighty Ad. UCE is the vehicle used to reach that goal. Good luck with your business. Send your ads to only your list. Keep abreast of what's going on. Delete unwanted ads. If you don't want to give up you can use this excellent help. http://spamattorney.biz Oh yes, and don't forget - WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMEN! ================== Bobbette Madonna, owner/publisher of LOGON Network of Ezines. Using Guerrilla Marketing tactics to educate, inform and investigate the 'Pulse of E-Commerce' and report findings to the readership. Unconventional methods produce exceptional results. No nonsense approach to marketing/promotion/advertising our clients business online and in print. Subscribe at the purple box: http://logonnewzine.com