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Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 6 Jun 1999 14:49:27 GMT
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Hi Todd
I saw today your oops gif on ebay and thought its a good step. you might
consider adding to the gif under the sad face:
unauthorized direct links to lugnet images is prohibited use of our bandwidth
please connect using(insert your url here)
Or other words to that effect.
The impression I got when seeing the image was that something happened on the
server that the image wasnt available (re 404 file not found error from
Netscape) rather than a message saying ...someone is misusing my "paid for"
band width and I would like you to stop.
Just my perception here from the ebay buyers side
John
P.S. Thanks for all the work you do maintaining Lugnet. I no longer feel alone
in the adult world of Lego® <grin>
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > > I took David's suggestion of displaying a placeholder image in lieu of a
> > > broken image link. But I made it a simple static image, 200x200 pixels.
> > > The image depicts a sad face and gives a URL to go to for more information:
> > >
> > > http://www.lugnet.com/oops.gif
> > > http://www.lugnet.com/oops.html
> Above all, I want to do whatever is reasonably possible to stamp out these
> bad links. Stamping them out completely is -- I believe -- technically
> impossible. But they can certainly be reduced.
> My desire (long term) is to slowly educate people who use the system either
> directly or indirectly. Once someone has seen the sad yellow face and has
> read the information on page it refers to, they never again need to pay
> close attention to that image if/when they see it -- they'll just know that
> the creator of the page they're viewing is doing something wrong, and each
> such viewing will reinforce in their mind that linking directly to images on
> other peoples' servers is a bad thing.
> --Todd
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 | | Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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| (...) OK, thanks for pointing that out. I added the text: Direct Image Links Not Supported Note that "Not Supported" is more technically accurate than "Not Allowed" or "Not Permitted", since the detection mechanism (which relies on the browser (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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| (...) Ah. Yes. I see. Given the filename of image that the client wanted (which could be extracted from the URL), the actual dimensions of the image could be looked up (quite easily, in fact). So, yes, I misspoke. In general, it's not possible for (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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