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November 22, 2002 Link to this post
New banner, and new banner policy
James Snow has turned in an update to an older banner in our collection - you'll find it in the Banners section. I'm not 100% comfortable with banners that were built to plug other fansites... but we accepted the older one, so we should accept this one. In other banner news, I need to figure out what we're doing about banners in general; a significant chunk of bandwidth is being wasted by people who use banner links from our pages for their signatures on various message boards. I haven't come up with a perfect solution - what will probably happen in the not-too-distant future is that we'll zip all the full-size banners, and show only a thumbnail; they'll still be accessible for anyone browsing our pages, but external links will no longer work. I hate to do this, but people don't realize that when they post a link like this on a board, we end up paying the bandwidth charge, for zero benefit to ourselves (folks don't even know where the banners come from, in most cases). This is just a heads-up; I don't have time to make these changes right now. If you are one of the people using our banners in your signature, now would be a good time to find other hosting. Thanks! (Louis Wu 16:25:12 UTC)
