From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 95 19:26:09 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: A "Warning Banner" for Netscape Navigator? Good idea!Re: A "Warning Banner" for Netscape Navigator? Good idea!
Message-ID: <199512020326.EAA25501@utopia.hacktic.nl>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May) wrote:
>Oh, I don't have their home page enabled. What I meant, but perhaps wasn't
>clear about in my post, is that the commercials pop up in Yahoo, Infoseek,
>Deja News, Excite, and so forth. (OK, so it is inaccurate to say "Netscape"
>puts them in.)
>
>Some of the ads are intertwined with the command boxes of the particular
>service, and thus may be hard to excise, but others seem to be separate.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>--Tim May

A while back, someone on comp.infosystems.www.* posted patches to CERN httpd
 allowing the proxy server to filter out url's based on regexp matching.
Thus you could update a regexp file as new ads appeared.

It should be fairly easy to implement something similar under Netscape 2.x
using plug-ins. Anyone interested in collaborating?

Wilhelm Busch

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQEVAwUBML/FZIiUi5SQtQ3tAQHeAAgAmtp2fF9/UzHpDIz0pOXQqZ/0U+1/vMjR
jenuLn17jkgQQXAl6e617ZKMJ4h+vV8QBOh78CPaK7omV9oJyNfDRQweDBWtiFRl
uEzyeUoYwGoXxkUH5ANM8AW3GaBSiQ4TCDnwZlAsJ1pYYGRgJhMtdEwPnNVAXW+l
l0uODlH+ENi8hGwsM683j7gGws0cc4JcH7Ou2U9zmLZ2gHrdQsWWdw70PjhdlK7e
26aY7EGfI9pTH69mHKV60Qxj2FmSCt1v6MeHjUwRupajCNTGcnsw3FllvRJc7lug
cYPApS2ychZSszUwBqoBMvJpAUSpWk+x/RfQTDeo0wsCSvwc66mhWA==
=DnEr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----