RE: Re: OT: FAO Darren

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Cheers Doogie,

I'll give it a try later ...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doogie Brodie [mailto:doogiebrodie@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 July 2001 00:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: OT: FAO Darren
>
>
> Hi Phil,
> > Anyone got any idea how I can get rid of these damn animated
> graphics at the
> > bottom of group emails?
>
> I can't test this at home as I don't have any old messages on this
> system, and I can't seem t  make it send me one with an advert...!
> But try getting the properties for the image. Hopefully its domain
> will be something like ads.yahoo.com or something similar. Then open
> your hosts file and chuck in
>
> 127.0.0.1    ads.yahoo.com
>
> I do this all the time t  get rid of banner ads - it just leaves a
> red X where it should be. However yahoo might use
> www.yahoo.com/blah/blah in which case you'd need something a bit
> cleverer, like one of the ad blocking proxy servers you can get.
>
> > I don't mind them so much but as soon as I try to read one then
it
> tries to
> > dial up my ISP to refresh the graphic or something and the dialup
> connection
> > it tries to use (for some unknown reason) is not the
> free "surftime" number
> > but the pay "daytime" number.
>
> :-) If "tools/ internet options / connections/ surftime
connection/
> set default" doesn't fix it, you can chuck something redundant
> infront of the non surftime number - eg 150 (cue kicking from Keith!)
> or similar, preferably non human answered number in, which means your
> PC can never dial the expensive number on its own, and if you do want
> to connect t  the expensive number, just double click it in DUN/ a
> shortcut, remove your 'doh-buster portion, and you're good t  go!
>
> HTH
>
> Doogie
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