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. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */
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