[SpamCop-List] Re: Blocking a notorius spam-friendly domain with my Hosts file

[George Langford, Sc.D.]

As promised (almost) here's my report on blocking the
dreaded omniture.com (masquerading as esomniture.com):

In Mozilla's "Preferences" menu, (significantly) under
Privacy & Security -> Images -> Manage Image Persmissions, 
one can block the loading of images from domains that can 
be added to a blocklist.  I did so with stats.esomniture.com
and can gleefully report that, so far, this has stopped any 
URL's of that ilk from appearing in Symantec's Web History log.

Now, let's see if that has any effect on the amount of spam
that gets sent my way ...

BTW, to use the Hosts file efficiently, one has to come up
with a substitute image for the one that the bad guys are
trying to load.  The program, "eDexter" serves that role
for me.  It's quite invisible in its actions, except for a
tiny red rectangle that appears in place of banned images,
such as slow-to-load popular-auction-site counters, etc.

George Langford in beastly hot SE PA