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usblipitor · Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 516 Location: Greenbelt, MD

I clicked on the Perl banner (yeah, I click 'em to support Rob Embarassed

) and instead of going to the perl web page, the entire page loads into the little banner area and I get vertical and horizontal sliders so that I can attempt to read this full size page in a banner window.

If this is how it is supposed to work, um, just ignore this message. But I am not sure how much usefulness there is in trying to get folks to read a full size page in a teensie weensie window. Smile

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jamesgammel · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:53 am Post subject:

Gee, I'm surprised to hear that anyone actually looks at those stupid banner ads, much less clicks on them. I lump them in the same category as spam email, pop-up ads, "unknown" and unwanted callers all day long, billboards, and junk mail from credit card companies. ALL an unwanted intrusion, extrememly annoying, and wish they would stop. I wish they would all be outlawed, with penalties of 100,000 for each offense, 10 years prison time after 10 offenses. Then have the courts ban these moronic people from access to the net. If their's something i really want or need, I'm perfectly capable of finding a source for it, I don't need these morons intruding in my life almost every second.

Jim

The Robman · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 11:37 am Post subject:

Steve,
I'm currently using the free version of the banner rotator cgi script, which means that once for every 250 impressions, the script writers banner appears. I control the HTML behind the banners that I place there but I can't control the HTML that is used for that banner, so it's probably not expecting to be wrapped up in the IFRAME html that I'm using. Having said that, I could robably dig into the CGI code and see if I can change the HTML.

Jim,
Good news. I'm going to stop running the banner ads at your request and convert this group into a "pay to enter" group, the rates will be $10/month for each member. Sign up now...
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Mark Pierson · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 1:05 pm Post subject:

The Robman · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject:

Plus, the only ads running here are those for BlueDo, Surf Remote and FileBug (except for the few random CGI script ads, which I explained above), so those ads are generally for things that are probably of interest to the folks here.

I can absolutely promise you that there will never be pop-up ads, full page ads or interuption page ads here. The most you'll get is a banner at the top and maybe one at the bottom of the pages.
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jamesgammel · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject:

The banner ads here at at RC aren't nearly as offensive as the other crap. They're small, and you can choose just not to click them. The worst ones are the pop-ups that block and hijack mouse and keyboard control. The ultimate worst are the one that pop-up BEHIND the screen your working on and hijack mouse and keyboard strokes to download some BS program behind your back and without you realizing. Then you end up with some idiot casino icon or other BS junk on your desktop, and idiot programs you never wanted. The annoyance has been going from unwanted morons calling all the time hawking garbage (because of the do-not-call list) to a LOT more of these invasive emails and pop-ups.
I've already got a cable that works pretty good, so I wouldn't have a need to go to filebug for one. As to BlueDo and Surfremote, I wouldn't shop either even if they had a one cent sale on everything they carry, simply because I don't need or want anything they carry.
Jim

Mark Pierson · Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject:

The Robman · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:56 pm Post subject:

Just FYI, I found the line of code that spits up the CGI ad and updated the link to make it work. So, next time one of you sees the CGI banner ad, could you do me a favor and click on it and tell me if it pops up a new browser window with the linked page showing.
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Lenroc · Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 60

Happened to get that banner when reading this page.

No it doesn't work, it opens something in the banner area still.

The url linked from the image/banner is to "http://www.shavenferret.com/scripts/%20target="

Looks like you might have forgotten to terminate the URL string?

The Robman · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject:

I got it, the bug is in the original code, which explains why the original link didn't work. I think I fixed it properly this time.
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Lenroc · Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 60

It took ~6 refreshes, but I got it again, and it works,

scottedge267 · Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 4

I think we should just ask jamesgammel to pay for the monthly cost of the site he seems like a nice guy!