Geocities javascript branding

[CMUNSON]

     This is just another reason to move your Geocities sites to another 
     provider, which I'm currently doing. Geocities' callous disregard for 
     aesthetic free speech concerns is getting to be annoying. If you 
     really look at what they are doing, it is apparent that they are 
     wrapping the Javascript logo brand around http requests. If you look 
     at the actual code for the page in the editor, the javascript is not 
     there. I believe their scheme also substitutes a graphic based on what 
     color you have set for the page background.
     
     In it's fashion, the new scheme is less obtrusive than previous 
     requirements, but the suddeness of these changes sucks.
     
     I would also like to point out that recent "reports" that purport to 
     rate the popularity of web sites consistently mislead about the 
     popularity of Geocities.com. Almost all of the content at Geocities is 
     created by it's "members," so in reality Geocities should be treated 
     as an ISP with several thousands of web sites. AOL is an ISP too, but 
     at least it does provide some content not provided by its users.
     
     It really bugs me to see Geocities get credit for work that I have 
     done, as well as the work of hundreds of thousands of other DIY 
     webmasters.
     
     Chuck0


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Subject: Geocities javascript branding
Author:  "Jerry Kuntz" <jkuntz at rcls.org> at Internet
Date:    6/29/98 8:54 AM


..I see where Geocities has apparently moved away from the extremely 
annoying pop-up browser Window ad attached to all their sites and is now 
using a javascript "branding". See:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Atrium/1437/
The branding always floats to the lower left of the browser screen, and 
appears much like a cable channel logo.
I wonder if floating "brands" like this could be integrated into a 
navigational scheme.
     
                                                Jerry Kuntz
                                                Ramapo Catskill Library
System
                                                jkuntz at rcls.org