In a message dated 3/9/2008 10:05:10 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ian.woollard@gmail.com writes:

It's OK to do that sometimes, but this is usually called 'leeching' and many websites will check their access logs and set up their webserver to refuse requests when people do that. It actually costs the other websites money to provide that service for your readers.>>

------------------------- The programmers who created the Wiki software set it up that way. So it's hardly fair to blame users who use it :)

Not that you're necessarily blaming me, but the word "leeching" is provocative.

Apparently there is a way to stop deep-linking of pictures, I've encountered it a few times when I go looking for an image to link. However, I do create, where the image comes from, so people if interested can visit the website in question to see more. That isn't something required by the software, it's just the way I do it.

But my question still remains, why do we have (or had) an ability in the software that we don't use in the project. "The sky is falling" isn't a good argument, and simply in-linking a remote picture would solve many space issues. I'm sure some providers would be quite willing to even give us license, not that we'd need it

Will Johnson

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