Michael Lake wrote:
>
> Jeff Waugh wrote (last Sunday):
> > I generally block ads that I see on the Internet by sending ad
> > server requests to localhost, which works quite nicely (albeit
> > confusing Netscape sometimes).
>
> How is this done? It seems a simple and neat solution.
> Mike
Sorry guys, I was away for 5 days and didn't read all of the 200
messages before I fired this off. I'll answer my own post as apols ;-)
Jeff Waugh wrote: (Sun, 06 Feb 2000)
> All you need to do is add extra entries to your hosts file, eg.
> 127.0.0.1 ads.doubleclick.net
> 127.0.0.1 ads.fairfax.com.au
Bye from Mike
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