New Python development process (SourceForge considered Harmful?)

[David]

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
 
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.