[OSM-talk] Seperate Advertisements fom osm stuff please

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:39, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
...
> I send Steve a patch to put the words "The adverts below support the
> project. Login and they go away." above the ads, replacing the text that
> was previously hidden below the ads, and he has applied it.

Thanks a lot. This is is an improvement.

> This is a stop-gap improvement, but I don't mean it to necessarily close
> the debate. We still might be better using the space for a fund raising
> "Please donate money" thermometer type display, 

If google really doesn't give back really much money; I would definiteley 
favour this solution.

> or possibly a hybrid 
> approach - show a thermometer to some people and Google ads to others on
> a 50/50 random probability, then abolish whichever earns the least money
> after some period (or just leave both - that may earn more than either
> will earn by itself).

Sound like a nice start to me.

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