[DMCForum] Re: hideously off topic...

["ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - it didn't work for me just clicking on the link, but pasting it
was fine.

-Ryan

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> I understand that, and that is why I stated I pasted the direct link
and it
> worked for me.  I had not previously visited any other link on his
server.
> Some people that link went to it worked for, and some not.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ryanpwright [mailto:yahoo1@xxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DMCForum] Re: hideously off topic...
> 
> 
> Greg,
> 
> This person has set his web server to check the referrer ID. This
> means he looks at the previous site you came from, and if it isn't his
> site, he switches to that "bandwidth stealer" notification. The
> picture is viewable if you go to his web site (any page on his domain)
> first, then paste the link into your browser.
> 
> Why do people do this? Because some web admins "steal" bandwidth by
> linking directly to your images instead of putting them on their own
> server. For example, say there was an image on my server that you
> liked. You can place that image on your web page with a standard HTML
> tag. When you do that, you can either download the picture from my
> server and put a copy on your own, or you can link directly to mine.
> 
> Well, if you link directly to mine, every visitor from your web page
> has to download that image from MY server! Even though the image is
> part of your web page. Bandwidth can be expensive when you're hosting
> a server, so when people start doing this, it costs the site in
> question real money. So more and more people are checking referrer IDs
> to ensure that images are only sent to people who are actually on
> their own web page.
> 
> Hope this technical clarification wasn't too boring.
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> > Well sonnofadiddly.  Ok, I posted it in the photo section on the
> Yahoo page.
> > It is the very last one, titled 'plumbtruck.jpg' but I think it
may have
> > already lost its funny by now.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Farrar Hudkins [mailto:fhudkins@xxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:31 PM
> > To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: hideously off topic...
> >
> >
> > "Forbidden
> > You don't have permission to access /archives/ on this server.
> >
> > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying
to use
> > an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
> > Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.freedomofthought.com Port 80"
> >
> > :(
> >
> > timnagin wrote:
> > > Try this link, and scroll allllll the way to the bottom and look for
> > > 'plumbtruck.jpg'.
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.freedomofthought.com/archives/

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