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A couple of months ago my ISP did something really strange. They took a perfectly good working home page for their site and replaced it with Flash. Fortunately they left one ordinary web link on their page that takes you to a copy of their old home page or I would have been forced to look for a new host. Certainly this stupidity on their part means that I would no longer consider recommending them to anyone else.As I have a Flash blocker installed in my browser, all I see when I visit their home page now is a big F in the middle of the screen and the single link is concealed at the bottom of the page. That F obviously stands for a four letter word followed by another three letter word which is what most people used to do when confronted with Flash intro pages on the front of sites.

I guess using Flash as a home page to drive people away has become so rare lately because people stopped doing such stupid things that some people have now forgotten how stupid it is. Now I don’t know if their home page is just a fancy intro/go away page or actually contains an interactive page that just happens to be written in Flash.

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