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Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 04:24:47 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, dkrenz@mc.net (dkrenz) writes:
I need to have something clarified: Is it ok to tell people to go to
www.lugnet.com and do a search for a set (not a direct link)?  [...]

Absolutely, yes, 100% OK.

But better yet, give them a link to the page showing the set, for example:

   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=6990-1
      or
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=7128-1

Just please don't link directly to the underlying JPEG image files, i.e.:

   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/pix/space/lego6990.jpg
      or
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/pix/new/upload/7128-1-912938621.jpg

--Todd



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  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
Ok, crystal clear now. Thanks, Julie (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
(...) Wow... head spinning here, thinking about this. Isn't this just about the same bandwidth load? Only lightening is that some people won't click on the link, so the image won't be served up. Any thoughts on what % "some" is in the above (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
I need to have something clarified: Is it ok to tell people to go to www.lugnet.com and do a search for a set (not a direct link)? I don't sell too many completed sets on eBay, but I would like to know for future reference...like when I find a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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