I have a fantastic HOSTS file (where can I post it for others tobenefit)?

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:21:02 -0500, Wildman wrote:

You unzip it first. The idea to zip the file was to reduce
its size for posting.

I understand the concept of a zip file.
But, I have to PASTE the *contents* of the file into pastebin.com
in order for that web site to work. Right?

So, it's not a file upload kind of thing.

If it were a file upload, then the zip concept would work better.
(much better).
But, pastebin is a content *paste* concept (it seems).

And, well, pasting the contents of a zip file is messy.
Very messy.

So, I found a better way just now...

Here are just the thousands of sites I have personally added
that are *not* in the MVP Hosts file today:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

I created that file by comparing my current hosts file with
the current MVP hosts file at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

To extract just my changes, I used the techniques explained he
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...n-another-file

Specifically, I called my hosts file, "file1", and then I called today's
MVP HOSTS file "file2", and then I ran this command to get the difference:
$ comm -2 -3 (sort file1) (sort file2) file3

The results, i.e., "file3", were pasted into pastebin.com.

These are the thousands of web sites I have found to be obnoxious
that are *not* in the MVP Hosts file today:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

If you find a problem, please call me on it.
If you know how to tell the MVP people about these additions, please do.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:17:29 +0000, Ned Turnbull wrote:

BTW, I'm going to shorten the file to eight thousand lines
because I just found out how to create a file of just
the differences I've added, which is explained he

Here is the paste of just my additions, although it was
ten thousand lines, so, maybe the sort went wrong...

http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:16:45 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

I certainly wouldn't want a HOSTS file that big. The vast majority
of the entires are bound to be sites I'll never visit, either first-
party or third-party.

Here are just the ten thousand sites that I've visited that I found
obnoxious. http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

I created this listing by copying my current hosts file to "file1",
and then copying today's MVP Hosts file to "file2" (removing Windows
style line feeds and end of file characters) and then running
the command shown at the web site below:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...n-another-file

Namely:
$ comm -2 -3 (sort file1) (sort file2) file3

That result was pasted into pastebin.com, which resulted in this URL:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

With those ten thousand additions, I almost never see a popup or an
advertisement, plus a ton of trackers are disabled.

Sure, there are *other* ways to do that, but if you have Mac, Linux, and
Windows machines, this one file will work for all three and it's trivial
to implement.

Anyway, I give it to the world, and the world can decide, for themselves,
whether they want to avail themselves of the power, or not.

NOTE: There is no performance hit, that I know of, except for Windows there
is one service you want to turn off (anyway), which is explained in the
MVP HOSTS web site. On Linux & Mac, it works flawlessly without any performance
hit whatsoever, even with tens of thousands of entries in the hosts file.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:21:02 -0500, Wildman wrote:

Should have been: zip hosts hosts.zip

Thank you for explaining that.

I didn't spend a lot of time on the zipping, but I do
appreciate the suggestion, so I'll save that syntax for
the future.

The reason I didn't spend a lot of time was twofold:

1. A zip file would be gibberish to cut and paste and most
people would be leery of copying and pasting it.

2. When I tried, the gedit command was "too smart" as it
automagically unzipped it, when I didn't want it to.

So, I gave up on the zip file idea pretty quickly, but,
please do note that the MVP Hosts file "is" a zipped file,
so, it's a perfectly valid concept; it just doesn't work
with the suggested pastebin.com web site.

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:16:45 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

But if you want to make it available to people then why not get
your own website?

I write apnotes all day, every day. I *should* create my own web site.
I really should. I agree.

But, for now, here are "my" ten thousand additions to the MVP Hosts
file, which you can have, free of charge, to do what you want with:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 02:56:04 +0000 (UTC)
Ned Turnbull wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:21:02 -0500, Wildman wrote:

You unzip it first. The idea to zip the file was to reduce
its size for posting.

I understand the concept of a zip file.
But, I have to PASTE the *contents* of the file into pastebin.com
in order for that web site to work. Right?

So, it's not a file upload kind of thing.

If it were a file upload, then the zip concept would work better.
(much better).
But, pastebin is a content *paste* concept (it seems).

And, well, pasting the contents of a zip file is messy.
Very messy.

So, I found a better way just now...

Here are just the thousands of sites I have personally added
that are *not* in the MVP Hosts file today:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

I created that file by comparing my current hosts file with
the current MVP hosts file at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

To extract just my changes, I used the techniques explained he
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...n-another-file

Specifically, I called my hosts file, "file1", and then I called
today's MVP HOSTS file "file2", and then I ran this command to get
the difference: $ comm -2 -3 (sort file1) (sort file2) file3

The results, i.e., "file3", were pasted into pastebin.com.

These are the thousands of web sites I have found to be obnoxious
that are *not* in the MVP Hosts file today:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

If you find a problem, please call me on it.
If you know how to tell the MVP people about these additions, please
do.


I'm afraid I don't know anything about pastebin.com. The way
it works makes a zip a bad idea. Someone else suggested to
use Dropbox and that would be my recommendation as well. It
will accept any type of file without having to use copy/paste.
You just drag your file(s) into the "Dropbox" directory on the
hard drive. All you need is a valid email address to sign up
for their free account. I can't remember how much space you
get but I think it is around 3-4gig.

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:09:46 -0500, Wildman wrote:

I'm afraid I don't know anything about pastebin.com. The way
it works makes a zip a bad idea. Someone else suggested to
use Dropbox

Hi Wildman,
I think we're fine now.

While a zip file is generally a great idea, it won't work here
because we want the file to remain as a text file.

So the pastebin.com idea by Paul was perfect, except that my
combined file was too large for a single paste.

I've since stripped out the ten thousand additions I've manually
added to the MVP Hosts file, so, now, *anyone* can combine the
two on their own with a simple word processor.

Here are the ~15,000 domains that MVP folks think you should avoid:
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Here are ~10,000 additional domains I've found that "I" would avoid:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

Combining those two files gives you ~25,000 domains which will never
bother you again. This works on all platforms, and is trivial to
implement by anyone who knows how a hosts file works.

Ned Turnbull wrote:
[....]

All this is asking is *where* I can post my excellent HOSTS file
so that others may benefit from using it?

It's looooooong (it's almost 25K lines long!).

I just want to post it, as a text file, so others can use it and
improve it. What location do you suggest?

You've had lots of advice already ...... but I'd like you to carry out a
test!

Try posting your loooooooooong Hosts file into this test group:

Newsgroups: 0.test

It's REAL! See Message-ID:

An experiment really! And it doesn't COST anything! ;-)

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you win.

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:16:45 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

I certainly wouldn't want a HOSTS file that big. The vast majority
of the entires are bound to be sites I'll never visit, either first-
party or third-party.

With those ten thousand additions, I almost never see a popup or an
advertisement, plus a ton of trackers are disabled.

Sure, there are *other* ways to do that, but if you have Mac, Linux, and
Windows machines, this one file will work for all three and it's trivial
to implement.

Anyway, I give it to the world, and the world can decide, for
themselves,
whether they want to avail themselves of the power, or not.

Where should the statue be erected?

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:05:47 -0400, "dadiOH" wrote:

"Ned Turnbull" wrote in message

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:16:45 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

I certainly wouldn't want a HOSTS file that big. The vast majority
of the entires are bound to be sites I'll never visit, either first-
party or third-party.

With those ten thousand additions, I almost never see a popup or an
advertisement, plus a ton of trackers are disabled.

Sure, there are *other* ways to do that, but if you have Mac, Linux, and
Windows machines, this one file will work for all three and it's trivial
to implement.

Anyway, I give it to the world, and the world can decide, for
themselves,
whether they want to avail themselves of the power, or not.

Where should the statue be erected?

Who is this geezer. Has anyone checked his bona fides?

Sent from my iFurryUnderbelly.

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On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 06:05:47 -0400, dadiOH wrote:

Where should the statue be erected?

In the host country, of course!

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:19:20 +0100, p-0''0-h the cat (ES) wrote:

Who is this geezer. Has anyone checked his bona fides?

Is this the "real" pooh?
If so, I'm glad to re-make your acquaintance!

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:00:05 +0100, ~BD~ wrote:

An experiment really! And it doesn't COST anything! ;-)

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:34:29 +0000 (UTC), Ned Turnbull
wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:19:20 +0100, p-0''0-h the cat (ES) wrote:

Who is this geezer. Has anyone checked his bona fides?

Is this the "real" pooh?
If so, I'm glad to re-make your acquaintance!

Eeyore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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the OVERCAT [The BEARPAIR are dead, and we are its murderers], lowlife troll,
shyster [pending approval by STATE_TERROR], cripple, sociopath, kook,
smug prick, smartarse, arsehole, moron, idiot, imbecile, snittish scumbag,
liar, total ******* retard, shill, pooh-seur, and scouringerer.

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On 08/29/2014 11:03 PM, Ned Turnbull wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:16:45 -0400, Mayayana wrote:

I certainly wouldn't want a HOSTS file that big. The vast majority
of the entires are bound to be sites I'll never visit, either first-
party or third-party.

Here are just the ten thousand sites that I've visited that I found
obnoxious. http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

I created this listing by copying my current hosts file to "file1",
and then copying today's MVP Hosts file to "file2" (removing Windows
style line feeds and end of file characters) and then running
the command shown at the web site below:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...n-another-file

Namely:
$ comm -2 -3 (sort file1) (sort file2) file3

That result was pasted into pastebin.com, which resulted in this URL:
http://pastebin.com/WJy5WH2c

With those ten thousand additions, I almost never see a popup or an
advertisement, plus a ton of trackers are disabled.

Sure, there are *other* ways to do that, but if you have Mac, Linux, and
Windows machines, this one file will work for all three and it's trivial
to implement.

Anyway, I give it to the world, and the world can decide, for themselves,
whether they want to avail themselves of the power, or not.

NOTE: There is no performance hit, that I know of, except for Windows there
is one service you want to turn off (anyway), which is explained in the
MVP HOSTS web site. On Linux & Mac, it works flawlessly without any performance
hit whatsoever, even with tens of thousands of entries in the hosts file.



'atta boy!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks