The First Step To Getting Help


...Is Admitting You Have No Idea How Your Own Site Works

With all due respect to Albert Brooks (and Garry Marshall), Canada's Globe & Mail reports on The Casino That Doesn't Care.

Compulsive gamblers seeking help from Gamblers Anonymous are being hit with on-line casino pop-up advertisements when they visit the self-help group's website, Australia's Daily Telegraph newspaper reports.

The tabloid said the self-help group cannot block the ads or take legal steps against the casinos, which are based overseas. Gamblers Anonymous warns visitors to its Australian site not to open the casino ads and is trying to update it to stop the pop-ups.

"This is when they least need that temptation. They are reaching out for support," said Louise Sharpe of the University of Sydney's gambling research unit.

"Update it to stop the pop-ups"? How did the ads get there? The folks at Gamblers Anonymous OZ might know a thing or two about killing a good time, but they clearly don't know (kangaroo) jack about websites.

If you've encountered a pop-up ad for the Throbbing Gristle reunion at CSTB, by the way, you should consider destroying your computer.

Posted: Wed - April 14, 2004 at 11:17 AM      

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