[ale] blocking adds at the Firewall?

[Zyman, Andy]

maybe Netscape 7.1 will help you?
I also use old atguard 3.0 ( i think it's 3.0 version ). it's ok for me.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: attriel [mailto:attriel at d20boards.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:37 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] blocking adds at the Firewall?
> 
> 
> > Hey guys, I think this is an easy question, but for some reason I'm
> > drawing a blank on the best way to go about it.  I basically want to
> > block advertisements from doubleclick.net, atwola, et 
> tal... What's the
> > best way i should do this?  Should I deny the packets at 
> the firewall,
> > or should I put an entry into my internal DNS for these servers?
> 
> Well, a lot of windows folks I know have started putting it 
> in their hosts
> files ... Of course, apparently this does soemthing bad to IE 
> that I don't
> quite follow :o
> 
> But since the site putting up the ads may be getting fundage 
> from them,
> you'd probably be better killing it at the FW; I'm not sure 
> how they count
> whether they've been delivered or not, but I garauntee that 
> it at least
> requires the adserver to send out the packets :)
> 
> OTOH, if you don't care about the site getting the 
> aforementioned fundage,
> either should work fine :)
> 
> > Also, does anyone have a quick list of the biggest/baddest 
> ad servers to
> >  block... ?
> 
> Can't help you there :/
> 
> --attriel
> 
> 
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