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Ben Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 9. "RE: Pop-ups" 07-10-01, 23:55z  ____________________ Greetings Barry: Oh, no sweat. You're right, it isn't a big issue, but I think you'll find that here at the VPC, if we can find a good way to fix something, we will. That's one of the main advantages we have over our former Forum providers--we are in direct control over all of this stuff. I fully understand where you're coming from regarding pop-ups. (Although they don't bother me as much any more since I stopped visiting those girlie sites!) Seriously, yes, pop-ups are abused by many web sites, and as Jim pointed out, service providers. I also thank you for your recognition that our NOTAMs window is for informational and navigation purposes--not an advertisment to sell anyone anything. I personally don't think it's fair to group our use in the same catagory as others, but I am a realist and I can see that people are so shell shocked by majority of them that it does have the potential to send a negative first impression. Nevertheless, I think we've taken the best option we've come up with so far. We've given the user the option to view them or not while not losing the ability to make announcements. Our overall vision about the VPC is we want to build a community here. Although allowing people whiz through the VPC without some knowlege of our state might be good for hit counts, I believe that a genuine community is more important that wham-bam-thank-you-mam visitors who won't spend the time reading a bit about what's going on here. My personal opinion is that the kind of people that will appreciate what we're doing here and have to offer will take the time to look around and will not be turned off by a sole pop-up window. If a visitor is truly turned off to the VPC from that single window and never returns again, well, is that really some future community member material for us? Well, that's my $0.25 on that. Finally, thanks for giving us permission to remove your message from the main board. I think we have the ability to move threads between forums, so I'll give it a try. If that thread doesn't appear in this forum, well, that means I messed it up somehow. Wish me luck! Ben Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Pop-ups    Ben Chiu       07-08-01              RE: Pop-ups    Hodgo       07-09-01       1            RE: Pop-ups    Ben Chiu       07-09-01       3                 RE: Pop-ups    Madape       07-09-01       4                      Auto NOTAM control added    Ben Chiu       07-09-01       6                           RE: Auto NOTAM control added (a not...    Ben Chiu       07-09-01       7         RE: Pop-ups    Madape       07-09-01       2         RE: Pop-ups    The Jim       07-09-01       5            RE: Pop-ups    BDEchols       07-10-01       8                 RE: Pop-ups    Ben Chiu       07-10-01       9

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