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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:17:12 PDT
From: "Gary Wong" <wonggd@attglobal.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: "Bennett B. Gaston" <bgaston@mindspring.com >
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Re: Kill Banner Ads...

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Sorry, I don't know, but I will .cc the scoug-help mailing list in case someone knows the answer.

On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 20:56:45 -0500, Bennett B. Gaston wrote:

>Dear Gary,
>
>I have been successfully using the techniques you explained in your "Kill
>Banner Ads" article of the March 2000 Issue of OS/2 For You. Recently
>however I have been experiencing some strange behavior with a few banner ad
>sites, such as:
>
>ad-adex3.flycast.com
>
>I have this site in my HOSTS file as you explained in your article, but
>when I try to load a webpage that contains content from this site, instead
>of just quickly displaying a broken link, Netscape will continuously try to
>load this site for up to a minute before it finally times out. Here is a
>good example:
>
>http://www.gideontech.com/
>
>I am currently running OS/2 v4 with FP12, DDFP1, MPTS8425, UN0980, and the
>latest refresh of Netscape v4.61. Do you have any ideas as to the cause of
>this phenomena?
>
>Finally, since I have a dual boot machine, I copy any updates to my HOSTS
>file between OS/2 and WinBlows. I found that WinBlows uses the updated
>HOSTS file immediately, whereas OS/2 has to reboot. Is there any way to
>make OS/2 re-read the HOSTS file without a reboot?
>
>Thanks for any info you can send my way.
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Bennett Gaston
>
>
>
>

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