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Re: No Longer able to access by member
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:48:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jim DeVona wrote:


If you know the name of a user's subfolders, you can still find them with URLs
like http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/USERNAME/FOLDERNAME, which redirects you
to the corresponding folder number.

This is probably intended to curtail the redundant bulk downloading of whole
accounts which is clearly occurring. (I certainly share responsibility for
this.) Frankly, although inconvenient, I think this is a reasonable response to
the tremendous amount of traffic (and terminal expense) our backups cause.

Jim

Yeah, I was starting to wonder how much traffic Kevin was suffering. I know I
have about 8 GB of files spread over 2 computers. I started doing the math in my
head. I hope he is not paying by bandwidth. Is so, I hope he communicates to the
community. I would gladly chip in a few bucks.

Todd



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  Re: No Longer able to access by member
 
(...) Yep. This effects the Mac backup script I wrote, too (-f works, but -m will quit without accomplishing anything). If you know the name of a user's subfolders, you can still find them with URLs like (URL) which redirects you to the (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)

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