Several times this morning, I tried to access this forum. The downloading got stuck at the banner ads: their host seemed to be down, producing a DNS error.
Would it be possible to incorporate a time-out, so that if the ads host at gamecity were not contacted within, say, 10 secs, it short-circuited the link and allowed downloading to progress normally? I realise that the ads are economically essential (unfortunately
), but why should we be inconvenienced if they are not available?
BTW, does anyone ever click on these banner ads? I know when I wish to access a site, I never do click an ad, because it is the site I wish to see and not an irrelevant distraction offering me a fortune, beautiful girls or whatever.
Or is this just me being terrible again? ![](http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/smile.gif)
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Brian (the terrible)
Would it be possible to incorporate a time-out, so that if the ads host at gamecity were not contacted within, say, 10 secs, it short-circuited the link and allowed downloading to progress normally? I realise that the ads are economically essential (unfortunately
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BTW, does anyone ever click on these banner ads? I know when I wish to access a site, I never do click an ad, because it is the site I wish to see and not an irrelevant distraction offering me a fortune, beautiful girls or whatever.
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Brian (the terrible)
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