Re: [Pan-users] OT: Web page rewriting filters Was: Downloading headers

[Duncan]

On Sat 22 Mar 2003 19:06, David Anderson posted as excerpted below:
> This damn web mail has no permanent option to turn off HTML formatting.

OK.  Understood, altho I think I'd seriously think about switching to some 
other web mail provider if that was the case here.  <g>

..  Another possibility, altho whether you can run it at work or not remains a 
question, is a decent web personal filter-proxy.  I haven't gotten one 
working since I switched to Linux, altho there are several (I've been looking 
at FilterProxy, perl based, which I'm learning, but it's dependent on some 
outdated packages and I I haven't sorted all that out yet), but I used the 
Promitron on MSWormOS..  One of the best little free programs I ever 
discovered for MSWormOS.  Basically, it allows you to re-code a page 
according to your specifications on the fly, so you could create a filter 
that would either change the text mode checkbox to checked by default, or, as 
I probably would, simply delete the checkbox altogether and hard code that 
option to always text.

There's just something appealing to me about being able to rewrite pages 
dynamically as *I* want them.  <g>  I know I spend far more time than I saved 
setting up filters to remove ads and the stupid stuff from sites I visited 
regularly, but it was just so cool to force them into MY mold, rather than 
forcing myself into theirs.

As I said, there are several packages that will work on Linux that do 
aproximately the same thing, and other similar stuff as well.   Here's a page 
that lists tools based on platform for all sorts of different platforms.  
Some of them just do ad removal.  Some, like the Proxomitron, allow the user 
to change any part of the conversation, both incoming and outgoing, in any 
way they so desire, pretty much.

http://www.flourish.org/adremove/

-- 
Duncan
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