Geocities..... Hmmm

I don't know whether everybody (except me until now) has thought of
this, but that advertising wotsamacallit:  If you don't close it, you
won't get another one (I think you can browse many sites, without it
ever appearing again.  Just hide it neatly behind something and forget
about it, or use a virtual desktop.  Cool.)

-= or =-

am I horribly missing the point.
If I am only JUST missing the point (i.e. you don't want to see the damn
thing, even once): I wonder if creating an html page with the title
"some words from on of our sponsors..." might do the trick (they must
have some test like this).
If I totallty missed the point, please don't flame me about it.  I was
only Trying to help (:  But I do want to know if I am being an idiot.

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o__ `._.-'''''     // Andy Hood                                   ||
|/  \   ,     /   //  <ah7...@bris.ac.uk>                         ||
     \  ``,,,' _//  | My "Ascii Web Page":                        ||
      `-.  \--'     | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/6090   ||
         \_/_/      | Contains: more silly art, like the chicken. |'
         // \\      `---------------------------------------------'
       ,;`  ,'` AsH

p.s. Lets play a game:  find the accidental smiley, which came at a most
appropriate point in the text, and I honestly only just noticed it.

Andy Hood wrote:
> 
> I don't know whether everybody (except me until now) has thought of
> this, but that advertising wotsamacallit:  If you don't close it, you
> won't get another one (I think you can browse many sites, without it
> ever appearing again.  Just hide it neatly behind something and forget
> about it, or use a virtual desktop.  Cool.)

Well, you're not the first, that's what I've been doing. I just put it in
some remote virtual desktop, never to see it again.
 
> -= or =-
> 
> am I horribly missing the point.
> If I am only JUST missing the point (i.e. you don't want to see the damn
> thing, even once): I wonder if creating an html page with the title
> "some words from on of our sponsors..." might do the trick (they must
> have some test like this).

They probably test if you load the correct images. If you don't they pop up
a window. The problem is that the window has a random name, so you can't
write JavaScript to close it. But maybe you can write JavaScript that
changes
the banner to a pic of your own (a title or something) when the page has
loaded.

> If I totallty missed the point, please don't flame me about it.  I was
> only Trying to help (:  But I do want to know if I am being an idiot.

You're not. (being an idiot, that is)
 
>                     ,,' ___________________________________________.
>  ww_          ___.-'// -------------------------------------------'|
> o__ `._.-'''''     // Andy Hood                                   ||
> |/  \   ,     /   //  <ah7...@bris.ac.uk>                         ||
>      \  ``,,,' _//  | My "Ascii Web Page":                        ||
>       `-.  \--'     | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/6090   ||
>          \_/_/      | Contains: more silly art, like the chicken. |'
>          // \\      `---------------------------------------------'
>        ,;`  ,'` AsH


Hmm, this sig looks like it just being, uh, well 'produced', by that
chicken, have you ever condidered turning her around?

> 
> p.s. Lets play a game:  find the accidental smiley, which came at a most
> appropriate point in the text, and I honestly only just noticed it.

the ): after 'once'? Do I win something?

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