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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 (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)

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