From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 4 16:41:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29567 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 16:41:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp6586.on.bellglobal.com (ppp6586.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29556; Mon, 4 May 1998 16:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6586.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00401; Mon, 4 May 1998 19:39:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp6586.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 19:39:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: "Matthew N. Dodd" cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Tim Vanderhoek , Eivind Eklund , Matthew Hunt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/ijb - Imported sources In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 4 May 1998, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > No we're not. We're talking about filtering ads. Eivind long > > ago agreed that a program which filters large, fat, unnecessary > > gifs has definate potential use. I agreed with him implicitly. > > No, in the case where we filter ads we do so because they cause specific > pages to be delayed in loading. Altavista for example would not have > their ads filtered because they load quickly and are fairly well > integrated with the page. Then you're not filtering their ads. Continue not filtering ads and keep your conscience clear. > Since you're somewhat slow I'll explain how HTML/HTTP work with respect to > loading these images. Now you're just being silly. I know quite well how the web and the protocals it uses work. > image loading completly if we desire.) By use of IJB and others, we give > ourselves the ability to do a number of useful things (not load images, > de-interlace interlaced gifs, etc.) That's different from filtering ads! > Just think of what web caching proxies do to banner stats on static pages. > (Which is why most banners are on pages are dynamic and provide hints for > caching proxies not to cache them.) Advertising is all statistics. For example, magazines do surveys to see how much second-hand readership they get, for the purposes of setting the ad-rates. -- 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