From: "Gary Britt" 

One good thing about putting offending websites in the restricted zone (and
disabling everything in the restricted zone) is that it does take *
wildcards in some ways.  It takes ? marks too, but I'm not sure if it uses
them as wildcards or just a ?.  I know it uses the * as a wildcard becomes
it comes with some entries that use them.  Downside, if any, is that with
sites like Drudge, you have to put drudge itself in the restricted zone to
stop it from using scripts that call ads from sites already in the
restricted zone.  Putting Drudge in the restricted zone with everything
disabled in that zone, causes the banner ad at the top of the page not to
display.  Doesn't seem to effect anything else.  Maybe that's not so bad
after all.

I've got your hosts thing working for me too.  Really appreciate that.

Gary

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:40ca7558$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> > Question:  Why do some addresses in your list have www.xxxxx.xxxxx.com
and
> > most leave off the www and are just xxxxx.xxxxx.com
>
> You have to use whatever they use for the URL to the ad server, so if the
ads
> come from www.xxx.xxx.com that's what you have to enter, on the other hand
if
> they come from ad1.xxx.com then you have to add that one. Each of those is
> simply a machine name, so if they call it bob.ads.suck.domain.com then
that's
> what you have to enter in your hosts file. And the bad part is if they
change
> the name to bob1.ads.still.suck.domain.com then you have to change yours
to
> match.
>
> Fortunately the hosts file is very efficient so you can make it pretty big
> before it starts to create any lags in resolving names.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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