From: "Gary Britt" 

Forgive my stupidity, but what does wget do?

In addition to the typo correction and anti-phising stuff they do, they
definitely seem to be faster in lookups than my local ISP.

Gary

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:58:47 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
>
>> just changed my DNS servers on my routers to OpenDNS.  Definitely seems
>>faster and supposedly a bit safer than many ISPs.
>>
>>Anybody else try them?
>
>  OpenDNS seems to know what they are doing.  I'd definitely point
> Grandma's PC to them.     There's no legitimate reason for Grandma's typo
> of 'goggle.com' to go to the real goggle.com AdBlaster site.  [Be careful
> with that one, I don't know if openDNS does  typo correction of that site]
>
>   In my case, I sometimes check out phishing sites with WGET, so I can't
> use them.

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