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ookabooka wrote:
Anyone else hear about this corrosion issue?

Kathy posted something about it at "NASA managers mull shuttle engine issue and that links to a Florida Today article.

Kathy usually includes this sort of news and more in our newsletter the Starry Messenger. Here is a mailto link to subscribe to the Starry Messenger.

We are running some good educational/science websites - StarrySkies Network (1, 2 and 3. Google ads aren't perfect, we keep finding those star naming and lunar real estate scams on our site, but it sure beats the junk we had with burstmedia and fastclick - the Google text advertising isn't ruining our visitors experience.

I tried to find a place to write to Norton/Symantec, but they aren't making it easy to find. I would like to tell Norton/Symantec that blocking ads will be very damaging to our efforts to offset costs and improve our sites. We will be recommending to our users that they use other anti-virus products like AVG.

One slashdot reader suggested using a cookie to not allow surfers not viewing ads, so I sent the following note to Google.

Hi,

You may have heard that many computers will be running ad blocking software in the near future because Norton anti-virus. I believe google ads should not be subject to this blocking partly because they aren't completely annoying like the pop up/under and so called rich format ads. A slashdot reader suggested using a cookie to determine if the ads are being viewed. Can you impliment something which allows us to redirect a user to a google page saying "This website has chosen to not allow browsers with ad blocking software, please disable it on your computer and then return to (referrer variable).

Thanks,
Chuck

Lots of good stuff at http://StarrySkies.com, not just astronomy.

Also http://StarrySkies.net, http://StarryMessenger.net and coming soon http://88Constellations.com