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[dolphinling]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, dolphinling wrote:
>>
>>I'd still like to hear this reasoning for this :)
> 
> 
> I replied to your e-mail back in October:
> 
>    http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2005-October/004942.html
> 
> The reasoning is that any advertising company that wants to increase its 
> business on the long term needs to make the users at least as happy as the 
> advertisers.

Oops, guess I missed that before.

It still seems a bit odd to me, but I guess I'll have to trust what the 
people who actually have data say. :)

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