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Date Posted: 13:52:20 10/02/01 Tue
Author: Lorna
Subject: Like you said....
In reply to: Di ;) 's message, "My Theory" on 12:09:03 10/02/01 Tue

IT'S BAAAAAAAAACK!!



>For what it's worth...
>
>Instead of downloading images and saving them to their
>own server to use on their sites, people were linking
>directly to the images on the host site. When you do
>this, everytime a page loads, it loads the image FROM
>that site and adds to the bandwidth usage for the
>month, which is limited on most servers. To stop folks
>from doing this, they must have redirected the URL
>from the image to the default image which showed the
>text graphic we were seeing.
>
>Why is it back? Not sure, unless they decided it
>wasn't necessary anymore to redirect anymore, or maybe
>it was causing problems in downloading the images that
>visitors needed.
>
>Or...maybe DJ finally downloaded the image and
>relinked it??? Who knows...who cares!
>
>It's BACK! :-)

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