On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
In NZ TV has 5 or so public channels and policing their advertising is non trivial. How many potential sources of email-direct advertising material on the net? How many legal jurisdictions? You bet it's a hard problem.
Right. Sufficiently hard that it's difficult to see how it can ever be sufficiently well-policed to be considered as legitimate a channel for advertisers as the television is, I would say.
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