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Subject: Re: An Old Market in which Ada May Play
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"Marin David Condic" wrote 
...
>                                     If there was an "Ada-scape-lorer" out
> there that had buttons like "Turn Off Advertising" and "Display Text First"
> and a bunch of other filter capabilities that were jsut sitting there
> instead of something you have to download as an extra, it might be a really
> good thing.
> 
> MDC

Well, this would be a good way to test the robustness of your browser.
 I'd imagine that most advertisers would consider such a filter A Bad
Thing :-).  They want you to be sitting there with nothing to do but
read their ads while you wait for your text to be displayed.  They'd
do whatever they could to break your browser.

                                        --Brian