performance impact of large /etc/hosts files

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> This is really what I want. Just avoiding the traffic, the time and the 
> optical disturbance caused by all those sites.
>
> I would even prefer a method as simple as hosts but linked even to my user 
> account.

http://adblockplus.org/en/ works fine on Firefox.  Easier to use and 
more effective than 127.0.0.1 entries in /etc/hosts.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA