[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Gross Deletes

[Roberto Gaetano]

John L wrote:

> > I disagree that this argument is absurd.  They are helping 
> you correct 
> > your typing mistakes, and the fee is not charged to you, 
> but if it is 
> > a paid link, paid by the advertiser, which the owner gets a 
> very small portion.
> > The more popular the site, the more spelling mistakes will occur.
> 
> This only corrects spelling for sites that are willing to pay 
> for traffic, and in cases where there are multiple sites 
> lexically nearby, you get the one that pays the most.  Maybe 
> I'm old fashioned, but I don't find any value in selling my 
> eyeballs like that, and there are plenty of useful sites that 
> don't pay for traffic at all.  Look at my www.abuse.net, for 
> example, with a budget of $0.

I'm old-fashioned, like John, and generally speaking I mistrust help unasked
for.
This "spellcheck service" reminds me of some places where if you ask the
directions for a restaurant or a hotel, showing a piece of paper with the
name and address of it, the answer is that they don't know such a place, but
they can show you what is for sure the best restaurant and/or hotel in
town...
Nothing ethically wrong, but please don't sell what is purely a lucrative
activity as a supposed service.

Secondly, what's wrong with the good old 404? I'm told that the url does not
exist, I double check, and hopefully get it right. Without having downloaded
tons of useless bytes (in most parts of the world at a cost for me). And it
works also for email addresses.

Cheers,
Roberto