[SpamCop-List] Re: SpamCop.net is promoting a C/R program on the new site layout

[Frog Prince]

"Frank Ellermann" <nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote in message
news:40DD28C9.3A04 at xyzzy.claranet.de...
| Frog Prince wrote:
|
| > To me this is a matter or principle.
|
| For Google it's also a matter of principle:  If they have a
| program associating "spam" with "bulkmail" (correct), then
| they _will_ send a "bulletproof bulkmail hosting" ad to all
| sites somehow related to spam, like SC.  Working as designed.
|
| > why can't it be used to exclude those ads that are outside
| > the scope of what SC stands for.
|
| You overestimate AI.  Try "Google sets", if they still have
| it, and enter 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23.  And then forget it for
| the next decades... ;->

No I'm not.  Neither am I underestimating the power of greed.  I think the
applicable word is hypocrisy.

I have a friend who operates a small store in NC. (Tobacco is a MAJOR
economic power here)  He is opposed to the use of tobacco,  not on moral
grounds but from the physical damage it does. (He's a Hospice volunteer)  He
could make a considerable profit on the sale of those products but does not
based on an ethical decision.  He does not avoid the issue or the
responsibility by posting a sign 'I do not endorse these products'