- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:39:15 +0100
- To: WAI Interest Group list <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Tighe K. Lory wrote: > > So why put useless stuff on the page in the first place? If it is there it > > should be useful, if it is useful, we need to know it is there. > Unfortunately, its quite often there to convey a message that isn't supportable by the facts and may even be illegal to state explicitly. (E.g. smoking makes you attractive to the opposite sex (although UK advertising law does have some restrictions on imagery used in smoking adverts, e.g. a minimum age of, I think, 26.) Although people talk about conveying information, the main purpose of many commercial sites is to propagate a brand image, not to provide facts. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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