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Originally Posted by StuartD
I happen to think that ICQ's install is awesome. Especially where it pops up stuff as soon as you start it, and how it puts little ads into the message windows. That adware rocks!
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I'm wondering how you can believe it is likely to be productive to keep attempting to convince people who use ICQ every day that the (small) banners displayed on ICQ and similar adware equate to the practises of scumware.
Your other misdirections are only slightly less transparent: if people can visit the board to promote their latest competition or whatever, why should it be too much to expect them to spend a minute expressing their opposition to scumware? This is an issue which has no middle ground and as Edmund Burke said "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing".
This particularly applies to some of the sponsors which have been named in this thread. What has been demonstrated here doesn't make it clear who is guilty of something, who may have been a victim or have been taken advantage of by an unscrupulous affiliate. Speaking for myself, I kept an open mind when the threads were started, but I can think of only one reason why there is still no input from several of them. Face it, "they are not responding, so they must be innocent" is not going to be a very common reaction to their silence.