By JOHN BURGESS
The Washington PostWASHINGTON - Laurence
Canter and Martha S. Siegel are certainly persistent. They are the two
Phoenix lawyers who blanketed the free bulletin boards of Internet with
advertising, setting off a barrage of complaints that they had violated the
Internet code of conduct.
Despite that reaction, Canter and Siegel have announced that they
are setting up a company called "Cybersell" to help other businesses
advertise on the Internet.
Its mission: "to use the entire Internet, which is accessed by more
than 30- million users and growing each day, as a new and lucrative market
for the sale of products and services."
The lawyers criticized an alternative that would set aside areas of
Internet for commercial marketing.
"The information superhighway, of which Internet is one of the
first real conduits, is a rapidly unfolding public resource. Nobody
owns it," Siegel said. She said Cybersll would follow "reasonable"
restrictions on time, manner and place that ads can be placed, but added
"advertising has a role to play" on the Internet. |
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