Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:50 am, magnet wrote: This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html Thanks, I'll do that BTW, that reply-to line of yours isn't half annoying. I forget to change it every time, and they always bounce back. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 9:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:50 am, magnet wrote: This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html Thanks, I'll do that BTW, that reply-to line of yours isn't half annoying. I forget to change it every time, and they always bounce back. Anne Oh ok, call me an old softy but I've removed my reply-to entry now ;-) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 11:44 am, magnet wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 9:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 3:50 am, magnet wrote: This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html Thanks, I'll do that BTW, that reply-to line of yours isn't half annoying. I forget to change it every time, and they always bounce back. Anne Oh ok, call me an old softy but I've removed my reply-to entry now ;-) Old softy ;) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 11:44:44 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh ok, call me an old softy but I've removed my reply-to entry now ;-) LOL hehe, I guess 2 comments about it in 8 hours was enough :D Thanks, Works great now Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. - George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? Webwasher is avaliable for Linux too ;-) I personally use privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) which does an outstanding job. Greetings Ralph Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in the format: 127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-) Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :) -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:49:36 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in the format: 127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-) Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :) -- magnet Magnet, btw, why do you have a long list of Reply-To entries? : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] This seems to remove / prevent the [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry, and now Iactually have no idea if you got my previous reply to this, as one got bounced back: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mailspool.clara.net[195.8.69.133] said: 550 Unknownlocal part SPACES in [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you didn't get it, I replied with: = Nice ;-) I did this once, but got bored, but seeing as you took all the effort, maybe you would like to post it (/etc/hosts) to me? It would be a great help, as proxy servers are really slow sometimes, and technically this is the fastest way to surf I believe. So if you wouldn't mind... ;-) Thanks Ralph -- http://tuxpower.f2g.net/ http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. - George H. W. Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 2:49 pm, magnet wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? Webwasher is avaliable for Linux too ;-) I personally use privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) which does an outstanding job. Greetings Ralph Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in the format: 127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-) Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :) This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] http advert filtering - sorted :)
On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 6:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 2:49 pm, magnet wrote: On Saturday 18 Jan 2003 10:56 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 10:28:24 + magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there some software filter/proxy similar to WebWasher on windblowz that prevents/blocks adverts on web pages using ad server IPs? Webwasher is avaliable for Linux too ;-) I personally use privoxy (http://www.privoxy.org/) which does an outstanding job. Greetings Ralph Doh, and I just entered approx 650 advert/annoying partial URLs and IPs :) Actually all I did was to paste/add the lines to my /etc/hosts file in the format: 127.0.0.0 bogus.advert.url and they no longer get loaded up here. I can't think why I didnt suss this out earlier, although being up half the night prob didn't help ;-) Thanks anyway for the replies peeps :) This I don't understand. Could you please explain to me how this works? Just for understanding :) Anne Go here Anne for a read: http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/hostsforlinux.html -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
