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| Fat Sam 2005-05-22, 7:25 pm |
| We've probably all experienced the problems of people remotely linking
to images on our websites....
Well, this made me laugh...I found it in another newsgroup, but I
thought it would be relevant here....
Imagine the scene
Ebayer1 decides to sell a graphics card, and in order to better show the
product, he links to some images that he has stored on his own server....
Along comes Ebayer2, who happens to be selling the same graphics
card....He checks ebay to see if anyone is selling anything similar, and
finds Ebayer1's auction with all those lovely extra images....
So he decides to remotely link to them too....
Naturally, Ebayer1 notices this extra traffic, probably in his referral
logs, so he changes the images on his server.....
The resulting page of Ebayer2's auction can be seen here
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....item=5200288924
I especially love the image of the Plasma TV with the caption, "This
Plasma TV included free"....
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www.fixaphoto.co.uk
for photographic restorations
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| Fat Sam wrote:
> We've probably all experienced the problems of people remotely linking
> to images on our websites....
>
> Well, this made me laugh...I found it in another newsgroup, but I
> thought it would be relevant here....
>
> Imagine the scene
>
> Ebayer1 decides to sell a graphics card, and in order to better show the
> product, he links to some images that he has stored on his own server....
>
> Along comes Ebayer2, who happens to be selling the same graphics
> card....He checks ebay to see if anyone is selling anything similar, and
> finds Ebayer1's auction with all those lovely extra images....
> So he decides to remotely link to them too....
>
> Naturally, Ebayer1 notices this extra traffic, probably in his referral
> logs, so he changes the images on his server.....
>
> The resulting page of Ebayer2's auction can be seen here
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....item=5200288924
>
> I especially love the image of the Plasma TV with the caption, "This
> Plasma TV included free"....
Now let's see how long it takes before Ebayer2 finds out <g>
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Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vão. O resto é imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
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| Chris Hope 2005-05-22, 7:25 pm |
| Fat Sam wrote:
> We've probably all experienced the problems of people remotely linking
> to images on our websites....
>
> Well, this made me laugh...I found it in another newsgroup, but I
> thought it would be relevant here....
>
> Imagine the scene
>
> Ebayer1 decides to sell a graphics card, and in order to better show
> the product, he links to some images that he has stored on his own
> server....
>
> Along comes Ebayer2, who happens to be selling the same graphics
> card....He checks ebay to see if anyone is selling anything similar,
> and finds Ebayer1's auction with all those lovely extra images....
> So he decides to remotely link to them too....
>
> Naturally, Ebayer1 notices this extra traffic, probably in his
> referral logs, so he changes the images on his server.....
>
> The resulting page of Ebayer2's auction can be seen here
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....item=5200288924
>
> I especially love the image of the Plasma TV with the caption, "This
> Plasma TV included free"....
>
I love it! They must have had a lot of fun with that one. I notice the
person running the auction has cancelled it "The seller ended this
listing early because of an error in the listing."
I recently found someone stealing a logo off one of my sites as a
message board sig, so put up some rewrite rules and put some free
advertising in there for me instead of the logo.
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Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com
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| Fat Sam 2005-05-22, 7:25 pm |
| Chris Hope wrote:
> Fat Sam wrote:
>
>
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....item=5200288924
>
>
>
> I love it! They must have had a lot of fun with that one. I notice the
> person running the auction has cancelled it "The seller ended this
> listing early because of an error in the listing."
>
> I recently found someone stealing a logo off one of my sites as a
> message board sig, so put up some rewrite rules and put some free
> advertising in there for me instead of the logo.
>
LOl, Brilliant....A perfect example of how to convert just about
anything into a marketing opportunity....
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www.fixaphoto.co.uk
for photographic restorations
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| William Tasso 2005-05-22, 11:24 pm |
| Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty Mozilla
Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206), Fat Sam stumbled into
alt.www.webmaster and said:
> ...
> example of how to convert just about anything into a marketing
> opportunity....
Are you sure you're from Belfast? I have visions of Mile End Road and a
pork-pie hat
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Whatever you do - do something.
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| "Fat Sam" <janetandsam@beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:d6qrvd$f06$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
> We've probably all experienced the problems of people remotely linking to
> images on our websites....
<...>
> The resulting page of Ebayer2's auction can be seen here
>
> http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....item=5200288924
>
> I especially love the image of the Plasma TV with the caption, "This
> Plasma TV included free"....
LOL - love it! thanks for sharing!
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| Roy Schestowitz 2005-05-23, 4:21 am |
| Fat Sam wrote:
> We've probably all experienced the problems of people remotely linking
> to images on our websites....
>
> Well, this made me laugh...I found it in another newsgroup, but I
> thought it would be relevant here....
>
> Imagine the scene
>
> Ebayer1 decides to sell a graphics card, and in order to better show the
> product, he links to some images that he has stored on his own server....
>
> Along comes Ebayer2, who happens to be selling the same graphics
> card....He checks ebay to see if anyone is selling anything similar, and
> finds Ebayer1's auction with all those lovely extra images....
> So he decides to remotely link to them too....
>
> Naturally, Ebayer1 notices this extra traffic, probably in his referral
> logs, so he changes the images on his server.....
>
> The resulting page of Ebayer2's auction can be seen here
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....item=5200288924
>
> I especially love the image of the Plasma TV with the caption, "This
> Plasma TV included free"....
I was perhaps too mean when I changed the avatar or a large BB administrator
into a photo of a small penis. In my defence, I warned him 2 weeks before I
made the swap and didn't get a reply. I got a reply only after his
embarrassment.
Roy
--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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| Fat Sam 2005-05-23, 7:56 am |
| William Tasso wrote:
> Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty
> Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206), Fat Sam stumbled into
> alt.www.webmaster and said:
>
>
>
> Are you sure you're from Belfast? I have visions of Mile End Road and
> a pork-pie hat
LOLOL....Try Smithfield Market in old Belfast town....Sadly gone now,
flattened and buried by a multi-story car park and a shopping mall....It
was a wonderfull place, full of old fashioned, high pressure
salespeople....Old fashioned markets like that just don't exist
anymore....It's a shame the developers of Castle Court shopping mall saw
fit to burn it down, claiming it was all a horrible accident....
--
www.fixaphoto.co.uk
for photographic restorations
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| Shucks. After I'd forwarded this to a few friends, my son discovered
that the images have now been corrected. Sigh...
MGW
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| Roy Schestowitz 2005-05-24, 4:21 am |
| MGW wrote:
> Shucks. After I'd forwarded this to a few friends, my son discovered
> that the images have now been corrected. Sigh...
>
> MGW
You can still see the dynamite monkey here...
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archi...tolen-graphics/
Yesterday I thought about taking screenshots of the page, but I finally gave
up on the idea. Making a copy of the page would have verged the illegal and
be unethical.
Roy
--
Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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| William Tasso 2005-05-24, 7:37 am |
| Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty
KNode/0.7.2, Roy Schestowitz stumbled into alt.www.webmaster and said:
> MGW wrote:
>
>
> You can still see the dynamite monkey here...
>
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archi...tolen-graphics/
>
> Yesterday I thought about taking screenshots of the page, but I finally
> gave
> up on the idea. Making a copy of the page would have verged the illegal
> and
> be unethical.
Depends, if you wrapped it up in a cautionary story about the perils of
using resources you don't control then I think you'll be ok - IANAL
--
Whatever you do - do something.
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| Roy Schestowitz 2005-05-26, 7:39 pm |
| William Tasso wrote:
> Forging a path through the Usenet jungle, armed only with a rusty
> KNode/0.7.2, Roy Schestowitz stumbled into alt.www.webmaster and said:
*LOL* Not fair...
>
> Depends, if you wrapped it up in a cautionary story about the perils of
> using resources you don't control then I think you'll be ok - IANAL
Well, it's too late now anyway.
Living in the past (SUSE 8.2),
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com
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