For the Good of the Forum

The_Reader_David

[The_Reader_David]

I've noticed that some perceptive posters have succeeded in providing links which circumvent login pages at some news websites by giving a link to the 'printer-friendly' version of the news story.

For the good of the forum, if we are posting from a subscription website, could we all test the link to the printer-friendly version and see whether it gets around the login page? If so could we post it, rather than the link to the main story? Thanks.

Also a suggestion to the Jim Robinson: the topics list should include something like to better cover posts like this one ('For the good of the forum' might be a good topic, explained as suggestions/requests to fellow posters or moderators.)

[RandallFlagg]

I think we should have a FREEPER COOKBOOK, one where people give their favorite recipes.

I second that!

[jellybean]

Not only does this needlessly use up valuable space on FR, it makes it most tedious for those with dial ups to load a thread.

Posting a picture on a thread DOES NOT use any of FR's bandwidth. It uses the bandwidth of the server where the picture is stored.

[MinuteGal]

See #s. 15 and 20.

Leni

[Rebelbase]

user: slashdot@slashdot.net

PW: slashdot

Works for a LOT of newspaper sites.

[Smartaleck]

"Posting a picture on a thread DOES NOT use any of FR's bandwidth."

The pic gets from the server to FR and appears on FR how? Using a car, bicycle ?

[michigander]

The pic gets from the server to FR and appears on FR how? Using a car, bicycle ?

It doesn't go to FR. It goes from the linked server directly to your computer.

[Smartaleck]

"It doesn't go to FR. It goes from the linked server directly to your computer."

Darn shame the folks on the FR server can't see the pics. ;-)

[michigander]

Darn shame the folks on the FR server can't see the pics. ;-)

Good thing it goes from the linked sever to their computer too. ;-P

[Smartaleck]

"goes from the linked sever to their computer too"

And this does not require bandwidth right? It just mysteriously jumps over there and takes up no space? Cool

[michigander]

And this does not require bandwidth right?
Other than the code to link the image, not FR's.

It just mysteriously jumps over there and takes up no space?
You do understand what "bandwidth" is, correct?

Cool
Yes, it is.

[Drango]

I think we should have a FREEPER COOKBOOK,

See my tag line....

[jellybean]

The pic gets from the server to FR and appears on FR how? Using a car, bicycle ?

They are delivered by train :)

That image is stored on a server that I use. YOUR browser displays that image on YOUR computer. You can change your browser settings so images won't display on your computer. It doesn't affect FR's server either way.

[jellybean]

Thanks for the backup, Mich :)

[petitfour]

Ewww. Don't buy anything from PTAs. In order to be a PTA, a local group must send $1.75/member to the National PTA, which lobbies in lock-step with the NEA. And they claim to be the most wonderfulest child advocacy organization and blah-blah-blah because they have oh-so-many members and politicians listen to them because they have oh-so-many members. I used to rationalize giving money via fundraisers to our children's school PTAs until the other day when I read from the PTA newsletter that they paid national dues and state dues for the total number of students in the school even though that many folks had not actually joined. In other words, the money that I or other donators to the PTA had given was then taken to give to a lobbying organization that I don't approve.

(this is my pet peeve of the week/month/year.)

[Nick The Freeper]

I'll back you up too. Images on threads do NOT use FR server bandwidth other than the very minimal img tag.

[jellybean]

Thanks! Some days I need all the back up I can get ;)

[Smartaleck]

Don't use width so it's smart to re-post the same graphic 18 times in a thread?

[jellybean]

It doesn't matter how many times it's posted. As long as it's got the same address throughout the thread, your browser will see it as one image posted a multitude of times. They will all load simultaneously. The only variable may be if one person added height and width attributes and another didn't. The one without the attributes may load a fraction of a second later...probably not even enough to notice.

With height/width tags

Withouth height/width tags

If you were to take that image, host it on your server and then post it here, your browser (and mine) would treat it as a new image even though it's the same. One may load faster than the other because your server may be faster than mine or vice versa.

[Nick The Freeper]

I didn't say it was smart (because it's not). I don't like it anymore than you, but it doesn't use extra FR bandwidth. That's all I was saying. ;)

[jellybean]

Meant to ping you to post #37. Please correct any misstatement I may have made.