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To: George W. Bush
"This thread ranks up there with the most dishonest and malicious threads about RP we've seen yet. Isn't it strange how so many folks like NRO and Fox News and the others never manage to detect all this raging antisemitism from Ron Paul? Yet, some puny online poll of nobodies is, here at FR, evidence of, what, the Brownshirts on the march."

Hyperbole Alert

Using those words here somehow stoke olfactory memories of a ZOT attack from the past.

332 posted on 09/21/2007 7:16:31 AM PDT by lormand (Ron Paul 08' - Magnet for America's kookiest nutballs)
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To: lormand; CJ Wolf; Abcdefg; Extremely Extreme Extremist
Hyperbole Alert Using those words here somehow stoke olfactory memories of a ZOT attack from the past.

Not at all.

This entire thread about "page views" and "originating site" is just about the stupidest and most web-ignorant rant yet.

For instance, many people use the Firefox web browser. It allows the use of browser extensions. One of the top five extensions for it is called FasterFox. Among other network tweaking functions, its main attraction is dynamic preloading of links. This makes it rather hated by webmasters and by ISPs because it automatically pre-fetches all links on every page you visit.

What this means is that a single link posted at FR or at St*rmfr*nt could easily result in most of the 400 page views recorded from those two sites. So it is the browser pre-fetching those pages, not that some FReeper or St*rmfr*nter actually clicked on the link themselves.

Like I said, this thread is just plain ignorant. The fact that you don't know about this tells us a lot about the quality of your opinions on anything having to do with web traffic.
Fasterfox :: Firefox Add-ons
I use Firefox but not the FasterFox extension because I think it makes you kind of a bandwidth hog and there are times when it can actually slow down your browsing. However, there are a number of other FReepers that I know of who do use FasterFox.

Undoubtedly, St*rmfr*nt has received a number of "page views" from FR as a result of this thread, something their webmaster obviously noticed, judging by what people are posting here. And some of those are undoubtedly being caused because some FReepers are using FasterFox to pre-load every link on this thread.
338 posted on 09/21/2007 7:55:23 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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