[jpsb]

I will try my simple common sense idea one more time before giving up.

Newspapers want hits on their web site so that they can sell advertising, perfectly understandable. One way (ugly) around this problem would be to place at random, an ad from a list of news paper advertisers as the first reply. I think most paper would go for something like that. It would help them and would not be a terrible thing for FR.

[Jim Robinson]

I don't know. There are a lot of papers we post from and a lot of people to convince. And not all are even in America.

[sweetliberty]

"It would help them and would not be a terrible thing for FR."

Why would we want to help THEM? And yes, it WOULD be a terrible thing for FR. One of the greatest things about FR is the blessed lack of ad assaults (not to mention the ensuing SPAM that follows).