"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote :
>
> I guarantee you will run into similar problems if you try linking directly
> to the resource pages at the various sites.
>

    Back when animated gifs were relatively new, I was one of the few folk
who made any large number of them for general distribution. Actually, I made
quite a good living doing so for about a year. But on my WEB page I had a
whole pile of samples and people kept trying to build their page by linking
to my images instead of downloading them and posting them on their own
server.

    I would have 30,000 hits on one .gif file and only 3 on my page...

    So I got a program, I forget the name now, but it's only purpose was to
find all the .gif files on your site and rename them incrementally. Worked
Great! I would run that about once a week and at first I got a bunch of
nasty E-Mail from people who thought it was unfair of me not to provide free
bandwidth with my free artwork. I loved getting those posts...

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