def METHOD_NAME():
    """ load exclude list, files that should be removed from the input stream
    """
    result = []
    excl_filename = '%s/exclude.list' % htdocs_default_root
    for line in open(excl_filename, 'r').read().split('\n'):
        line = line.strip()
        if len(line) > 1 and line[0] != '#':
            result.append(line)
    return result