[Wikipedia-l] image hotlinks

Larry Sanger lsanger at nupedia.com
Wed Jun 20 05:19:31 UTC 2001


Why nontrivial?  It should just be a matter of commenting out the code that
permits the image to be displayed, no?

In any case, it *would* solve the problem handily.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] image hotlinks


> That's pretty non-trivial, I think.
>
> Larry Sanger wrote:
>
> > Well, y'know, we could simply change the code so that images can't be
> > grabbed from another server...
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Timothy Shell" <tshell at bomis.com>
> > To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:35 PM
> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] image hotlinks
> >
> >
> > >
> > > A search on \.jpg reveals 12 instances of hot linking to images.
> > >
> > > A search on \.gif shows 25 instances.
> > >
> > >
> > > Tim
> > >
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