Re: Ads dont connect

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, greg(at)turnstep(dot)com wrote:

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> Greg wrote in December 2004 about the ads on postgresql.org:
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>>>> I don't have cookies enabled, and I always go right back to www.postgresql.org,
>>>> if I click on anything. Why not just encode the destination directly in the
>>>> URL? e.g. http://ads.postgresql.org/redirect.pl?id=42
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>>> if we were only running on central site, that would be possible, but not
>>> possibl with static pages on several dozen mirrors ...
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>> But could the default action for the script (in the absence of a detectable
>> cookie) be to go to a random ad? Seems that would make the most sense.
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> Any update on this? I actually saw an ad I was interested in last week,
> but clicking on it bounces me back to the main page.

Any update on what? Without cookies enabled, the click through will go to
http://www.postgresql.org ... having it to go 'some random site' wouldn't
be particularly appropriate ...

We could put up a page on http://www.postgresql.org that explains that
cookies are required for the banner ads, and have it redirect to there
though ...

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