Americans For Computer Privacy - This is organization to take a look at if you are interested in privacy matters.

http://www.computerprivacy.org

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) - One of oldest organization of all. This group is huge and has so many benefits that it's impossible to list them here. It can be highly technical, and tends towards theory and practice of computing. They have dozens of publications and for about a hundred bucks you get access to a huge online library of white papers and technical works.

http://www.acm.org

Better Ethics Online (BEO) - A great group all about ethics of online world. They have several lists of known spamming email addresses which can be used in filtering software.

http://actionsites.com/beo/index.html

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email - Want to learn about spam and how to prevent it? This is a great organization to join and join fight.

http://www.cauce.org

Cyber Crew - A group of volunteers which covers just about everything on internet. More of a users group than anything else.

http://www.cyber-crew.com

HTML Writer's Guide - This organization has lots of good web-based courses and a certification program (Certified Web Professional). This group (which has merged with International Webmasters association) has many other great features. Yearly members is about fifty bucks, and this gets you courses at half price.

http://www.iwanet.org

IEEE - One of very largest and oldest computer societies. In fact, computers are only a portion of what this organization offers. Thousands of papers are available online to members, and dozens of publications are published. This group tends to be highly technical and very in-depth.

If reader doesn't have a large list to send an ad to, it's likely there will not be many people buying new opportunity. The "big" gurus and publishers have contacted most every reader and resource that you can imagine advertising to.

If I see an ad a few times, I might look into it out of curiosity, or to see if it's a scam (I used to run a scam reporting site). If I see an opportunity advertised 15-20 times, I WON'T look into it. It's already in over-kill and making people sick of seeing it - and that includes me. I start to delete emails of publishers who push a program more than once for his own interest and earnings.

The caution signs I look for are - ð product not yet released but you have to pay anyway, ð product so new no one has had a chance to use it or know it, ð program has a monthly cost requirement, ð it's a rewording of a known scam, ð too much hype and promises, ð guru has previously been worthless in his prior support, ð would one feel "guilty" pushing this on someone else, ð and a few other clues that don't feel "right."

I can't understand why so many people jump on every new opportunity, just to feel failure of every other prior opportunity that went nowhere. They spend money they don't have, and get no return. Mind you, I don't say all these programs are scams - some are, some are not - but can you actually make money from them?