Re: [TCLUG:17930] freshmeat changes

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Sat, 20 May 2000, asshole wrote:

> Maybe it would be better if freshmeat ran on an old 486 with a 56k dial-up.
> Sure would be nice if the maintainer was going hungry. It's really too bad
> that Andover is paying those guys a ridiculous amount of money to keep up a
> site that provides a nice service to the community. I sure wish there was some
> banner ad filtering software that would keep me from seeing those unobtrusive
> banners that pay andovers' bills which in turn keep a whole shitload of really
> great sites available to me.

Do the banner ads come from a different host / domain?  I'm just playing
with some IP filtering stuff and read something where someone said they
set it up to filter packets from annoying advertisers.  So, you could do
what you suggest, if there's a way to tell those packets from the others.

I really liked the idea -- IP filtering for another good reason besides
security!  (If you remember that censorship is the purview of the people
and not the tools...)

Phil M

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