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By the time Roper Starch issued its recent report on “What’s Wrong With Dot-Com Ads?”, that title had a dog-bites-man air to it. Everyone is so sick of dot-com excess that they’d be more curious about a studypurporting to find something right with dot-com ads. People might feel differently if they saw some of the trade ads for industry-specific dot-coms, like this one for a Web site serving the railroad business. Presented in the guise of a model-train kit, it has the playfulness one expects from dot-com advertising.

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