New Python development process (SourceForge considered Harmful?)

[Tom]

"David" <root at 127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:39e0d75b.78955419 at news.telus.net...
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:28:41 +0000 (GMT), Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.russ.ru>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi!
> >
> >On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Tom wrote:
> >> Personally, I've got too many ads in my life, so I prefer to pay for
things,
> >
> >   Not all people want this, and not all people can afford this. There
> >"connected" countries with low salaries, and having free services is
really
> >big advantage for poor us. Take it a bit easier :)
> >
> >> rather than have to put up with lots of ads.
> >
> >   Why not just filter ads out? To make the letter more pythonic - I can
> >publish URLs of filtering proxies, and most of them are in Python. I
> >actually use one these proxies - and is pretty satisfied (I hacked it a
bit
> >and sent patches to author...)
>
> Another option is to create a HOSTS file that sends requests for ad
servers
> to the garbage bin:
>
> www.adserver.com 127.0.0.1

But aren't there thousands of different ad servers?
Do you mean that I should do this just for those sites that are particularly
annoying?
Or am I missing something?

Tom.

>
> and so on.
>
> The HOSTS file exists on Windows and Linux environments.  Addresses in it
> are inserted into the domain name lookup process prior to actually
> contacting a DNS.  Basically, it cuts 'em off at the pass.
>