Dear Eyefusion,

I appreciate your enthusiasm regarding sajha, and kudos on your 'spirit of sharing' which is what sajha is mostly about.

Over the past few months, I have seen few threads regarding the scrolling banner being irritating, and you have even termed it 'intrusive'. If you are a typical internet user then I am sure you have seen more 'intrusive' and 'irritating' ads while surfing on other websites and/or discussion forums.

Many other free sites like sajha have such intrusive ads which have popup ads; pop - under ads (which pop up in another window underneath the main browser); interstellar ad - which force you to 'skip the ad', some pop up ads even force you to download active-x components which can be malicious spyware. Most other sites run third party ads which have the potential of running tracking cookies on your computer.

Compare all that potential hazard and hassle of having to close ad browsers everytime you open a new page, to straightforward simple ad banners in sajha which are neither intrusive nor malicious.

As few of you have noted, the top scrolling banner 'can' get irritating to few users. This scrolling banner was the simple answer to be able to run multiple banners without having to compromise other area of the site with banners. These banners are mostly run by Businesses dealing with Nepal or Nepalis. These are there to provide options when you need to buy a plane ticket, or phone cards etc. These banner help keep sajha free of other annoying and intrusive ads as I had mentioned above.

Enjoy sajha, enjoy the banners. It's a win win situation!