If you use Firefox for a browser you can install Greasemonkey and then
insert script that makes all the banner ads in gmail disappear. IT works a
charm.

mordo

On 12/15/08, Karl Ploessl <karl.ploessl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> that is 'normal' behaviour. That is how gmail is free. Click on a email
> with
> oil and a banner/spam/advertisement for a "lubrication" side comes up.
> Gmail
> looks for 'keywords" in the mail and puts "appropriate" advertisement up.
> Maybe the mail you read originally had 'gas tank' or something in it and it
> put up 'sementank' (whatever that is). I rarely notice these banners.
> And yes, after reading your e-mail i have the 'sementank' banner up.
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Al Knoll <anasasi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I get this often:
> > ><Sponsored LinkMVE Semen Tanks - sementank.net - MVE Semen Tanks XC
> > Millenium $499 Buy the Best and Skp the Rest
> >
> > In the just above the text section banner area.  Anyone else on gmail get
> > this?.  And  I'm pretty sure it doesn't have anything to do with
> vanagons,
> > lifting mechanisms for the westy top, tires, fridges that dont', ac that
> > doesn't, or heaters that don't...
> >
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> Karl
> 1981 VW Westy "Jenny"
> 2000 VW Jetta GLS VR6
> Wilmington, DE
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