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RE: FN-FORUM Pop up windows

date posted 6th July 2002 00:58

Hello there folks,

Just paste the folloing into your hosts file - on windows systems this
is in the %windowsroot%/system32/drivers/etc/hosts and I thing on 'nix
boxes /etc/hosts - this will redirect the most common culprits to your
own machine where they will get a 404 result.

You'll still get the popup but won't have your bandwidth eaten up
downloading crap. Omit the tags.

I've been adding to this for months now so it should be pretty up to
date.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Matt Keeble
> Sent: 05 July 2002 21:02
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM Pop up windows
>
>
> The problem with both those answers is that Adaware won't
> block popups on sites! It will only remove Adware bundled
> with free/shareware software (like Kazaa or RealAnything). As
> far as Opera goes, doesn't that mean that sites that use
> pop-ups legitimately (as information windows for example)
> won't work properly (I could be wrong as I am not an Opera
> user - apart from for testing ;o))
>
> To answer Carla's original question :- yes they piss us all
> off ;o) Personally, I will NOT have them on the sites I build
> (and bugger the client - let them get told by someone who
> know's what they're talking
> about) there are much more effective ways of advertising your
> site /on your site
>
> HTH
>
> Matt Keeble
> www.keebleconsulting.com
>
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