Avoiding ad banners (was: Anatomy of a netscam)

[Steve Cramer]

>>> Temple Hoff <temhof at mohave.lib.az.us> July 15,
1996  11:26 am >>>
"For those of you worried about the ad banners at the top
of search result  screens from commercial search engines,
have you thought of creating a  mirror page on your local
web server?"
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Or you could simply select the "auto-images off" option on
your browser. At the most, you will see the "alt" tag for the
banner. Of course, the page will download faster, too.

This "problem" doesn't neccessarily require a techno-fix,
just an awareness of the options users have and a critical
attitude about information gathering.

Steve Cramer
Library, Davenport College
Holland, Michigan USA
scramer at davenport.edu