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• Good stuff! (Score:1)

  by sjn (3626)

  ...but how about a non-javascript version? Adblock kills these ads quite easily. :-(
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by gabor (1626)

    show me how to do that

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    • Test automation using Perl [szabgab.com]
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by sjn (3626)

      Any plain downloadable machine-parseable file would work. Just make sure the URL is stable. :)
• Nifty, but needs some eye candy ? (Score:1)

  by renodino (6856)

  Thats pretty kewl, but needs some graphics (or something) to be more eyecatching. In a page with lots of other content, the Perl note gets pretty washed out.

  Too bad all the camels are locked up by O'Reilly (for any commercial site, anyway).
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by grinder (1100)

    That's because the goal of the Camel is to sell O'Reilly books.

    The logo of Perl is an onion.
• Nice. Thanks. Unfortunately adblocked by default. (Score:1)

  by schwigon (5350)

  Thanks. This is a great idea. I already added it to http://www.perl-workshop.de/ [perl-workshop.de] and http://dresden-pm.org/ [dresden-pm.org] start pages.

  Unfortunately it already seems to be blocked per default by AdBlockPlus (firefox) because its URL matches "://adserv" (and maybe other negative substrings). Can you (maybe additionally) provide URLs without such tainted strings?

  How about perlcommunitynews.szabgab.com/news/direct_link_selflink.js for instance?

  Who do I ask to get it integrated with our http://mail.pm.org/pip [pm.org]
• Prevent abuse by malware providers? (Score:1)

  by mckyj57 (3327)

  Are there any measures being taken to prevent malware distributors from abusing the server, thereby causing us to distribute security breaches?
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by gabor (1626)

    I guess no, as I have no idea what are you talking about.

    Could you please explain?

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    • Test automation using Perl [szabgab.com]
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by mckyj57 (3327)

      Spammers have been inserting ad code that distributes malware. Obviously this is done by hacking legit ad accounts, or simply by purchasing an ad from an automated portal. Flash movies have been the most common vehicle, as they are difficult to inspect.
      
      Unless we have an HTML/code expert inspecting all ad submissions, it would be possible for a spammer to provide an ad that would then be present on an otherwise-reputable web site that you would not suspect of having such content.
      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gabor (1626)

        At the moment I allow only plain text and a single <a href= tag so for now I think the only problem can be texts in a language I don't understand.

        Which means most of the languages.

        I don't think I plan to allow much more complex html than that.

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        • Test automation using Perl [szabgab.com]
• like this (Score:1)

  by ysth (7833)

  Instead of returning javascript:

  document.write("<ul><li><a href=http://www.madmongers.org/>MadMongers</a></li><li><a href=http://yapceurope.org/>YEF - European Conferences and Workshops</a></li><li>Perl Event: <a href=>Windy City Hackathon</a>, December 14-16, Chicago, IL</li><li class='perlAdserverSelflink'><a href='http://adserver.szabgab.com/'>By Perl AdServer</a></li></ul>");

  you return html:
• now on perlmonks (Score:1)

  by ysth (7833)

  The ads are now shown on perlmonks via the (optional) Community Ads nodelet.