Article: Beware those friendly New Year resolutions

By the time you read this, your New Year resolutions will have been made, broken, and forgotten.

But New Year resolutions do make an interesting study which reveals two key points about the Web -- people will try to make money on the Internet in ways you would probably never think of, and some Web pages demonstrably do not get updated for years.

New Years Greeting Cards (www. 123greetings. com/events/newyear) will pop up everywhere when you do a Web search for New Year resolutions.

Free greeting cards are a huge Web business enterprise now, functioning as an e-mail address collection system (to send a card, you give both yours and the recipient's) which is subsequently used to send out ...

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