\_ Hey, all this philosophy has been great reading.  It's obviously not a
\_ popular idea to filter incoming content.  So to summarize, someone who needs
\_ to accomplish this unpopular task must buy a commercial product.

No, there are solutions to anything, as a BOFH would say, picking up
his 110v to cat5 adapter.  You can filter, it's just that a lot of
folks don't think it's the best/only answer.  :-)

You could always make an extensive /etc/hosts file and put in many
hosts that you don't like and have them resolve to your box....  I
block about 90% of ad banners on my frequent pages that way.  (Plus,
as an added bonus, I get sound affects when ads are shot down....)

Ads blocked also show up in error log after proper application of grep, sort,
uniq, and cut:

[...]
count   day
     94 Jul 10
    110 Jul 11
     54 Jul 12
    192 Jul 13
    139 Jul 14
     96 Jul 17
    218 Jul 18
[...]

:-)  

David