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Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:30:56 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

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

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 sentence?

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Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
(...) It may be that there is little bandwidth change in the long run (I have _no_ idea about the numbers here), but the point is that people can't link directly to the file. This way, someone looking at Joe Blow's Lego Auction does not (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
(...) As you stated, the number of people actually clicking on the link would be fewer than the number of people merely looking at the image as it is automatically loaded, but that's not the issue. If I understand correctly, Todd's not saying we (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
(...) Absolutely, yes, 100% OK. But better yet, give them a link to the page showing the set, for example: (URL) or (URL) please don't link directly to the underlying JPEG image files, i.e.: (URL) or (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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