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From: schwartz@latour.colorado.edu (Mike Schwartz)
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Subject: "advertising is not evil"
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Date: 27 Jan 91 16:43:32 GMT
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In article <156215@felix.UUCP> asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) writes:

>Don't be so all-fired-up certain they're *not* doing a public service.
>When you have a family of four to feed (as I do), you appreciate learn-
>ing about bargains and getting coupons...

I have nothing against making the information available.  What I don't
like is having it forced on me.  If, for instance, advertising went to
an intermediary electronic bulletin board service that people like you
could browse, people like me wouldn't have to be subjected to it.  (This
would also reduce the amount of glossy junk mail that fills our land
fills.)  Of course, this wont happen, because another purpose of
advertising is to convince people to buy things they don't need.
 - Mike Schwartz
   Dept. of Computer Science
   Univ. of Colorado - Boulder