From: doug.bryce{at}sympatico.ca (Doug Bryce)

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:53:01 -0400, "Steve Ewing"
 wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:54:13 GMT, Doug Bryce 
>wrote:
>
>> O.K....but I see George figures there is no legitimate stuff at
>> 'adsever' .
>>
>> Those banner ads that are now being blocked are not coming from the
>> sites to which you're connected -- they're coming from server sites
>> that you've now blocked in the hosts file.  Images that are part of a
>> site should not be blocked because they will be stored 'locally'.
>>
>> Doug
>
>Despite having no popup issues, I've applied the /etc/hosts
"cure"-- and
>now I am not wasting time for the ad servers to serve (NYT site is
>particularly bad on this).

Hmmm....I had not thought about doing that ....I'll have to keep
an eye on some of my regular sites and see what kind of stuff is being
served from 'elsewhere'

doug
>

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