Re: HOSTS problem....
From: RJK (notatospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/08/04
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 22:56:13 +0100
...though casting my eye through the JS in it (no-ads.pac) it seems to be
detecting sub-domains with, sort of wildcards.
regards, Richard
"RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ...this is good ! I just checked my Hotmail and there's two whopping
great
> big "Action Cancelled" 's on there. Meaning that no-ads.pac is working.
>
> Earlier on I knocked up a couple of macros and whistled through the mvps'
> hosts file converting it into a gigantic block of entries to insert into
> no-ads.pac and it ceased working. I double checked the syntax e.g.
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".mousebucks.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".websponsors.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".commission-junction.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".advertising.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".cybereps.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".postmasterdirect.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".mediaplex.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".adtegrity.com")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".bannerbank.ru")
> || dnsDomainIs(host, ".bannerspace.com")
>
> (I noticed there's a tab in front of the two vertical bars...using Wordpad
> to edit no-ads.pac ,andXP seems happy with formatting of this type ANSI?
> .Open the thing in notepad and it's all jumbled up.
>
> Anyway, I was wondering why no-ads.pac wouldn't work with that huge block
of
> entries extrapolated from the hosts file? I got rid of most of the www's
> and www3's and https' and so on but, a lot of the entries in hosts have
more
> than two dots in them so I was wondering if that's what made it fall over,
> or whether there's perhaps a limit to the size of no-ads.pac
>
> It would be an enormous job editing them all to make sure that domain
names
> only have two parts and two dots, if u c wot I mean. There's only so much
> you can do with a macro :-)
>
> regards, Richard
>
>
> "RJK" <notatospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OvPWazMZEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > After HOURS and HOURS of fiddling and tweaking, it seems that because my
> ISP
> > server? dishes up both ad and non-ad content, this is why my host file
> NEVER
> > works.
> >
> > So I thought the EXPERTS in here might like to take a look at, and
comment
> > on
> > http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/#howtouse
> >
> > regards, Richard
> >
> > ....I used to use a *.pac file years ago, looks like I'll be having
> another
> > got at this :-)
> >
> >
>
>
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