There's been a few discussions of banner ads before, but I only just noticed one particularly alarming thing while looking at my proxy

The largest cache directory in my proxy is the perlmonks ad server. It's bigger than the one holding my directx 8 download (mainly due to the large cluster size of the hard drive).

For a company with such obviously good programming skills it seems strange that they chose to use a trick like "random number links" to force the picture past my proxy every time.

A reasonable way to server banner ads would be to give the same number to each picture, and a new number if they are ever modified. That way the users always get the new content, but if it has been seen before it comes out of the cache.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

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