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Apr 16, 2003, 4:03pm

How come there was never a warning to the citizens that all their
work would be trashed by 3.4. The history of AW is filled with
pictures and art . Why didn't AW let the free web hosts decide if they
was going to block AW?

Apr 16, 2003, 4:20pm

It's not just to stop webhosts it's to stop people from stealing stuff from
people's OPs.

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Apr 16, 2003, 4:29pm

Yes after talking toAW on the phone I understand that. It is too
bad that so much work is lost in AW though.
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Apr 16, 2003, 5:35pm

Actually it's not AW's fault that the free webservers block leeching...you
can always use a redirection script that makes the webservers think that
you're actually downloading the picture :P

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Apr 16, 2003, 5:41pm

not really... you just get a better web host and change the URLs, I might
make a bot to do it auto when I have time.

- Mark

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Apr 16, 2003, 5:56pm

The pics just needs to be moved.

I think it has more advantages than disadvantages that AW got
closer to the web standards.


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Apr 16, 2003, 6:11pm

http://awtaz.net/p.php

You can use this as a picture redirection thing URL.


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Apr 18, 2003, 2:44pm

Hey, lots of buildings get destroyed by the actual free hosts themselves
anyway. You'll find old buildings from 2000 or something lying around,
the loss of pictures caused by Tripod or Geocities shutting down the
account for some reason or another.

Of course you can also find older buildings with the Tripod stuff still
in tact, weird how some accounts can survive so long and some can't...

"sk8man 1" <gzanone at optonline.net> wrote this
(news:3e9da280$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com) in general.discussion on 16
Apr 2003:

> Actually it's not AW's fault that the free webservers block
> leeching...you can always use a redirection script that makes the
> webservers think that you're actually downloading the picture :P
>
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