[ILUG] Nasty development ?

[Anthony Durity]

perhaps you could junkbuster from http://www.junkbuster.com to filter out
unwanted nasty ads. its pretty cool in that it lets you do this using
regular expressions with pretty fine granularity from entire domains to
single gifs.

-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Kelly [mailto:ray at phbrink.ie]
Sent: 28 June 1999 13:23
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Nasty development ?


On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Niall  O Broin wrote:

I've got around that by assigning a blank html file for 404 errors on a
machine that doesn't do very much web wise...  This machine is listed in
the hosts file on my squid box as as many of these ad servers that I've
come across.... so usually what I see is a little broken image where the
ad should be & nothing where a missing html file is.

Not sure if this is what you want but it works for me :)
I did the same for geocities (another waste of b/w) until my boss
complained :)

	Ray ...

> I tried to follow a link from Linuxworld this morning to a story about
Code
> Warrior (http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cn3wHWbKbytaWmty).
However,
> I don't get there because I keep getting error messages along the lines of
> 
> 
> You don't have permission to access
/adj/bw.newsalert.com/;pac=search;kw=;sz=468
> x60;ord=930570348 on this server.
> 
> This comes from accessing this URL
> 
>
http://ad.doubleclick.net/adj/bw.newsalert.com/;pac=search;kw=;sz=468x60;ord
=930
> 570348
> 
> This is, I imagine, not unrelated to the fact that I, like all right
thinking
> people :-) resolve  ad.doubleclick.net to my local machine which of course
> refuses to serve any of the requested pages (this has the unfortunate
side-effect
> that I sometimes get a big Forbidden message displayed rather than a small
GIF,
> thus overwriting some of the content I actually want to read). Have I any
way around
> this other than telling the truth about
ad.pain.in.the.arse.and.waste.of.bandwidth ?
> 
> Also any way of getting around the "unfortunate side-effect" mentioned
would be nice.
> 
> Kindest regards,
> 
> 
> Niall  O Broin		
> 
> UNIX Network Administrator 		 	nobroin at esoc.esa.de
> Ground Systems Engineering Department		Ph./Fax  +49 6151 90
3619/2179
> European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
> 
> 
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