On 20/07/00 16:54 +0530, Sthitaprajna spewed into the LI bitstream:
> Nearly all sites have ad banners of some sort at the top/bottom...let's not
> get into where, but the fact is there are ads.
Correct - there are ads.
> can these ads be blocked by putting the ad banner sites like,
> ad.doubleclick, etc etc in /etc/hosts.deny?Or will doing so cause problems
> in rendering of pages? And wil this make surfing any faster?
That is what Junkbuster does. It won't cause any problems mostly -
but at least some sites are getting wise to this and causing problems
for you if you do this (such as the main page turning up 404)
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/Hosts.shtml
> "CANNIBAL, n. A gastronome of the old school who preserves the simple
> tastes and adheres to the natural diet of the pre-pork period."
>From Ambrose Bierce's 'The Devils Dictionary', right? I love it ;)
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'I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
-- G. K. Chesterton
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