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[ILUG-SOCIAL] Introduction, was: too much spam

[ILUG-SOCIAL] Introduction, was: too much spam

David O'Callaghan david.ocallaghan at cs.tcd.ie
Tue Jan 13 10:10:09 GMT 2004


Dé Máirt, 2004-01-13 ag 03:22, scríobh William F. Acker WB2FLW
+1-303-722-7209:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think myself that the rte site is one of the best Irish websites
> > going, especially since ireland.com went subscription. The only problem
> > I found when living abroad and listening to the live rte radio feed was
> > that their ads would drive me crazy, they are of such incredibly poor
> > quality, that I eventually just couldn't handle it, rte should really
> > quality control the ads that it airs :-)
> > 
> Perfectly understandable for a native, but as someone who's trying to
> learn as much about Ireland as possible, I like them.  I run a mile from
> the ones produced here, however.

I think they've reduced the number of ads for farm animal medicines
during the last few years. It was always slightly disturbing to be
eating dinner and be asked "Having problems with fluke, mastitis,
scabes?".

> BTW, I'm getting ready to tackle The
> accessibility stuff in Openoffice.org.  That should be a challenge. --

Best of luck.


David




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