Friends of yours Vin?

[LEX]

http://www.maxheadroom.nu/funstuff/oz.jpg

LEX

[Animus]

Nothing showing up.

[LEX]

Shows up here. Image.

LEX

[TAFKAT]

That link is reporting no hot linking at my end.. :-)

[LEX]

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From the webpage...


403 Forbidden


Hotlinking is not allowed, please tell that to the source of the link.



What is Hot-Linking?
Hot-Linking is when you copy the location of an image (or other asset) from someone else's website then use that link to make the image appear elsewhere. For example, you find an icon or a photo on a website that you'd like to use as your message board avatar. So you copy its location (let's say: http://example.com/pics/coolness.gif) and paste that link into your profile.

So what's the harm?

Every time someone views your profile, or reads a board that you've posted to, their web-browser grabs that image directly from the original website. This in turn uses some of that site's bandwidth. Most webmasters pay for an certain allotted amount of bandwidth; if their site uses more than that amount they have to pay more or their site will get shut down.

What's the big deal, it's only one, small image!

Here's the deal. That one, small image can drain a huge amount of bandwidth if it's posted to a popular message board. Besides, do you think you're the first person to find and like that image? Imagine if several hundred people hot-link to that one, small image. Now imagine that they've posted it to someplace like LiveJournal where some posts can get tens of thousands of hits a day. Not so insignificant.

So please don't hot-link. It's inconsiderate and bad web-etiquette.

Thank you

[Animus]

It's probably only showing up for you since it's in your cache Lex.

[LEX]

AzzHatZ:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j297/lexaudio/oz.jpg

LEX

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ROTFLMFAO..

I hadn't seen that reported here.., awesome.

Straight to the poolroom..