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    In order to protect our members and TFL from possible litigation, all members must abide by the following new rules:

    1. Copying and pasting entire articles from another site to TFL is strictly prohibited. The same applies to articles from print or other media, and to posting photographs taken of copyrighted pages or other media.

    2. Copyright law provides for “fair use” of portions of a copyrighted work. You can copy no more than a SINGLE paragraph from the article to your post (3 or 4 sentences at most).

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    4. You must provide, in your own words, a brief summary of the article AND your reasons for believing it will be of interest to TFL members. Failure to do so may result in the thread being closed or your post being deleted as a “cut and paste drive by.”

    5. Photographs and other images are also copyrighted. "Hotlinking" of images (so that it appears in your message) from other sites is also prohibited unless you own rights to the image. If you wish to share an image, provide a clickable link to it.

    Posts that do not follow these new guidelines will be altered or deleted by staff. Members who continue to violate this policy may lose their posting privileges at TFL.

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Pics hosted from Photopoint

M

Mikey

New member
At one time I could post pics hosted thru photopoint.com - then, after an upgrade to TFL, the UBB codes and photopoint naming convention became incompatable for some reason causing a scrambling of the address characters and UBB codes for the photo.

Then, after another TFL maintenance session, I could post again, until today.

Today I tried to post a pic thru photopoint and the problem was back. The following is a test to be sure the problem is indeed back.

Trying Rich's suggestion...
My Piglet

Mikey

[This message has been edited by Mikey (edited June 20, 2000).]
 
Mikey's photo

OK...
We don't allow HTML as it can crash the UBB software easily. You have to use UBB Code, which you already know....your post demonstrates that. Unfortunately, your URL is not calling an actual HTML page from another server; it's creating a dynamic page within someone elses viewing software, within the UBB code, within the UBB Perl Scipt.....ovbiously one pass or another is failing. Even if you edit your post to place the "[/img]" tag at the end, it fails.


Bottom line: the UBB "img" tags work fine for simple references to offsite HTML images, but not for calling another script as you have apparently done. In any case, we prefer that links be posted to external graphics (as I have done), as this decreases download time and bandwidth. This isn't a hard and fast rule, as you'll see images in posts at TFL. We just don't encourage them.
Rich

[This message has been edited by Rich Lucibella (edited June 20, 2000).]
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rich Lucibella:
Unfortunately, your URL is not calling an actual HTML page from another server; it's creating a dynamic page within someone elses viewing software, within the UBB code, within the UBB Perl Scipt.....ovbiously one pass or another is failing. Even if you edit your post to place the "[/img]" tag at the end, it fails.


[/quote]

Rich I'm glad there are people like you in this world. If it was up to people like me, we'd still be using drums and signal fires to communicate.

BTW Thanks for TFL.
Eric


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Formerly Puddle Pirate.
Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.

[This message has been edited by Eric of IN (edited June 21, 2000).]
 
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