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IP: Stop the madness!.com
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 16:08:57 -0500
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 12:40:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Wharton <jwharton () netcom com> To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Stop the madness!.com Dave-- Okay, so a few years back corporate URLs started showing up in print ads. Next they began appearing on cereal boxes and packaging materials, more recently, on television ads. Practically every ad during last month's Superbowl showed the sponsor's URL at the end; I guess that was meant to imply the sponsor was technologically-savvy -- if not a true "Internet Company". Indeed, some Superbowl ads seemed to promote nothing **BUT** a URL. But this is too much. Here in the Bay Area the Anderson Honda/Isuzu car dealership chain has begun running radio ads that advise listeners -- over and over -- to contact them at "1-800-ANDERSON.COM". That's right; "One, Eight-Hundred, Anderson-Dot-Com". (I'm not making this up.) Never mind that "ANDERSON" alone is already longer than needed for a 7-digit phone number. (Dialing 1-800-263-3776 does indeed connect you to the Anderson chain of automobile "superstores".) And never mind that telephone numbers have nothing to do with internet domain names. What I'm trying to figure out is how to dial the "dot". --john wharton
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