Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 19:27:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504191343.306F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19980504111800.32162@techunix.technion.ac.il>
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On Mon, 4 May 1998, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > 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 Yes, exactly!! To continue the analogy, even... If you send some people a MIME message, they will not be able to (easily) read it. Similarly, Lynx can't read some web pages. Similarly, pages which depend on too many graphics will not work well on computers that can't handle them (due to bandwidth or cpu limitations). You have to realize that medium != transport method. HTTP is not the web. > > 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. And you are choosing these patterns on a basis other than "these are ads --- remove them"? If not, then we're talking about filtering ads. > 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. No, what I want is that for you to recognize that people give you information with a certain price attached. When you delibrately avoid paying that price, you are stealing. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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