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echo: os2hardware-l
to: George Fliger
from: Steve McCrystal
date: 1999-10-03 11:49:20
subject: Matrox drivers?

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In a msg of , George Fliger writes to Bas Heijermans:
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George,

 BH>> so decided to leave that site but it wouldn't close on me and opened
 BH>> every time a new window to send me back, even when I changed
 BH>> the url. I had to kill NS to get rid of them!

 GF> Then I'm afraid you need to educate yourself on some of these
 GF> porn sites.  This is a very common practice to get you to stay
 GF> within their realm so they have a chance to possibly sell you
 GF> some of their services. When you hit a site that acts like this,
 GF> simply go into preferences, advanced and turn off Javascript.
 GF> This will stop the action.  You can then enter in a URL you want
 GF> to go to and you will be able to get out of the Javascript
 GF> "loop".  Once out you simply reenable Javascript.

The Castlewood Systems site used to do that, too, and it isn't a porn site!
:^) Apparently enough people complained that they change the code to fix it. 
It really was excessively annoying!

-[Steve]-

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