why no replies

[hardofhearing]

Hello, I ask this in genuine search of understanding/learning.

I posted a question earlier in this group (subject atdmt, posted 20-1-07)
and had absolutely no replies.

Was this because of the way i composed the question, the subject matter or
what?

Or just one of those days?

[Gary Woods]

"hardofhearing" <me@some.impossiblex.hideout.com> wrote:

>I posted a question earlier in this group (subject atdmt, posted 20-1-07)
>and had absolutely no replies.
>
>Was this because of the way i composed the question, the subject matter or
>what?
>
>Or just one of those days?

All of the above.
None of the above.
Possibly the post never made it to some servers.
Possibly nobody knew the answer.

(I didn't, for one).


Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

[Arecibo]

Gary Woods wrote:

> "hardofhearing" <me@some.impossiblex.hideout.com> wrote:
>
>> I posted a question earlier in this group (subject atdmt, posted 20-1-07)
>> and had absolutely no replies.
>>
>> Was this because of the way i composed the question, the subject matter
>> or what?
>>
>> Or just one of those days?
>
> All of the above.
> None of the above.
> Possibly the post never made it to some servers.
> Possibly nobody knew the answer.
>
> (I didn't, for one).

I never noticed the post. I have now... ;-)

Anyway, my hosts file (updated 16th January) contains a dozen "atdmt.com"
entries including the one you listed, and I can access EBay. I really have
no idea why it should be blocking you.

The host file blocks access to anything associated with the domain
xyzetc.admt.com - that doesn't mean that it's the name of a type of malware
or spyware; it means that the domain(s) are listed as either "suspect" or
possibly complicit in downloading spyware, or (in this case) primarily
concerned with advertising.

The entries in the hosts file should block the ads and/or associated
tracking cookies, not the page that actually hosts the ads.

--
Arecibo

[Rusty]

"hardofhearing" <me@some.impossiblex.hideout.com> wrote in message
news:45b6758b$0$8715$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> Hello, I ask this in genuine search of understanding/learning.
>
> I posted a question earlier in this group (subject atdmt, posted 20-1-07)
> and had absolutely no replies.
>
> Was this because of the way i composed the question, the subject matter or
> what?
>
> Or just one of those days?
>
>
The subject heading was not very informative. Most people would not even
open the post.

Try again with a more descriptive rather than cryptic subject heading.

Cheers,
Rusty

[hardofhearing]

> The subject heading was not very informative. Most people would not
> even open the post.
>
> Try again with a more descriptive rather than cryptic subject heading.
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty

OK point taken

[BS]

hardofhearing wrote:
>> The subject heading was not very informative. Most people would not
>> even open the post.
>>
>> Try again with a more descriptive rather than cryptic subject heading.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rusty
>
> OK point taken

ATDMT is a data mining company.

[Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, "hardofhearing" <me@some.impossiblex.hideout.com> wrote:
>Hello, I ask this in genuine search of understanding/learning.
>
>I posted a question earlier in this group (subject atdmt, posted 20-1-07)
>and had absolutely no replies.
>
>Was this because of the way i composed the question, the subject matter or
>what?
>
>Or just one of those days?

Out of curiosity, I looked it up. Your story checks out,
but I have no clue what the answer might be.

Ckypp

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>My sister in law has had a problem (DELL computer using WinXP SP2, I.E. 7) -
>whenever she tried to use ebay, whatever she searched for, she would be
>redirected to Dell's own search page. I spotted right at the end of this
>process a message that it was opening 127.0.0.1 On the Dell page there was
>always the same message that a site couldn't be found. I didn't make a note
>of the full address, but saw that it contained //view.atdmt.com.
>
>I had a look in the hosts file that i had installed for her a while ago
>(MVPS) - and sure enough there was a reference to atdmt.com. When I disabled
>the HOSTS file, ebay started working fine, and if I reneabled it, ebay
>stopped working again.
>
>I also looked in the registry and there was a reference to atdmt.com in
>HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE .......P3P/History
>
>I ran the latest version of Windows defender - found nothing. Downloaded the
>free version of SuperAntiSpyware, and it found nothing other than tracking
>cookies which I allowed it to get rid of.
>
>A Google search talks about atdmt.com as spyware, but SAS and Defender found
>nothing
>
>So can anyone explain:
>
>- what atdmt.com is
>- why should it's presence in the HOSTS file be blocking ebay
>- would you expect SAS to find and deal with it
>
>
>I've since checked on my own computer, and the reference to it is in my
>HOSTS file as well, but it has no effect on using ebay