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Date:      Sun, 3 May 1998 20:59:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Matthew Hunt <mph@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980503205621.20104E-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980503230438.48318@follo.net>

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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> Should't this be under ATT (for "Automated Theft Tool")? ;-)
> 
> Refusing to download ads from the WWW is very bad practice.  Those ads are
> paying for the service you're using.  I'm not even certain we should have
> the above program as a port - I don't think we'd have a 'automated
> crack-on-download' tool, for instance, and this is actually fairly similar.

I strongly disagree.

The only reason I have a problem with banners is that they break caching
at times and are hosted on separate sites than the content and often stall
the loading of the web page.

I'm on a 28.8 with 3 other people and about 8 to 16 systems.  The last
thing I need is some lame ass animated GIF banner cloging my line.

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