From owner-cvs-ports Sun May 3 23:08:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28175 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 23:08:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-ports) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28129; Sun, 3 May 1998 23:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA13417; Mon, 4 May 1998 08:07:39 +0200 (CEST) To: Eivind Eklund cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , mph@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 00:41:54 +0200." <19980504004154.04264@follo.net> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 08:07:39 +0200 Message-ID: <13415.894262059@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <19980504004154.04264@follo.net>, Eivind Eklund writes: >> > 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. >> > >> >> Eivind, >> >> hmm....if i understand what you are saying then >> 1. i should watch the commercials on TV rather than getting >> a sandwich or changing the channel. >> 2. if i record a program of TV, i shouldnt fast-forward thru >> the commercials. > >Let me rephrase this for TV: > >If you're a producer of TV-sets, including an option to automatically >remove all advertising so that all programs run continously[1] would >be unwise, as it would be bad for the health of the medium. As a >consumer, skipping on a case-by-case basis is (of course) OK. I think there is pretty good data supporting that television would be much better without the advertising, because they could concentrate on contents instead of ratings. PBS is a case in point. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal