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  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
 
(...) Yup -- that's the idea. There is also another reason: Linking to the HTML page currently just happens to plop up whatever size JPEG image happens to reside in the DB. But it doesn't have to be that way -- many of the images are 100+ KB, which (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
 
(...) Neither, just a question. (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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