Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 11:18:00 +0300 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources Message-ID: <19980504111800.32162@techunix.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504021909.332C-100000@localhost>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:25:23AM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504011006.20104N-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504021909.332C-100000@localhost>
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You, Tim Vanderhoek, were spotted writing this on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:25:23AM -0400: > > You demonstrate a falwed understanding of how HTML/HTTP works. > > > > Anything your browser shows you has been pulled, not pushed. > > Bah. And I suppose your email reader is going to pull this > paragraph but not pull the next one. Perhaps you should pull > alternating words from my message. That would certainly save > your bandwidth. You demonstrate a flawed understanding of how SMTP/POP/IMAP work. They do not allow you to choose parts of the message to pull because that would not be useful. Your analogy is doubly flawed because HTTP in reality does not "allow" you to pull off "parts" of a page. A "page" is something which is recognized by browser but not by HTTP protocol, in which you specifically and separately request each image/other file. > > We're talking about software that turns off loading of images that match a > > specific pattern. This isn't filtering as such. > > No we're not. We're talking about filtering ads. No we're not. We're talking about (strictly) filtering HTTP connections that math a certain patterns usually based on their target URL. Filtering as in, never initiating them. The software gives you more freedom to choose what you want or do not want to pull from network, using the HTTP protocol. And you complain because you're given more freedom. Bah. I'm unimpressed. > Eivind long > ago agreed that a program which filters large, fat, unnecessary > gifs has definate potential use. I agreed with him implicitly. 'Unnecessary' is in the beholder's eye, and you undermine your argument beautifully yourself. For me, _every_ ad is an unnecessary, large fat gif (or jpeg or whatever). What you want, however, is that I would be unable to define precisely just what is "large, fat, unnecessary" for me and what isn't. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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