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Muzman
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(I'm not sure how new this is)
Apparently Geocities are moving in line with Angelfire and xoom and all those others to bar external links of images and so forth. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/geo-10.html
I'd imagine this will affect a lot of people around here. No longer can you host your stuff on Geocities and embed an image in a post here. Only links to html files with the geocities front end and advertising etc are allowed.
There's a petition to bitch about it here
http://www.123petitions.com/cgi-bin/system/[email protected]$2
Are there any free hosts left that don't do this now? Does anyone know?
(-edit- ok I promise to read furthur down the page in future. Still, the petition link is fresh  )
[This message has been edited by Muzman (edited February 22, 2001).] |
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Chapel
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 1:20 pm |
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liquid2k.com
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Flexible Elf
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 1:30 pm |
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crap
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lostfilez
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 1:43 pm |
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If you just need space for your pictures you could try zing.com OR photopoint, but they put that little *hosted by photopoint* at the top of all of your pictures, which is kinda annoying  |
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Nex
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 3:40 pm |
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redrival.com
no ads, image links allowed |
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sacrelicious
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 5:01 pm |
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Well, gee. Ain't this a sweet motherfucker?
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Wiked Ewok
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| Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2001 8:28 pm |
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Are there any new GOOD free servers?(using crosswinds as my alternate, besides geo..but it sucks)
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nova
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2001 1:43 am |
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Virtualave.net works great, though they have ugly banners, so i only store my pics for posting there.
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TremorX
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2001 9:29 am |
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| Try freeservers.com ... I'm pretty sure they let you link out. |
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Vesuvius
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2001 10:30 am |
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you can still link to your geocities images, just write the URL with the www. replaced with fp.
test it, it works.
do not distribute this info further, as they'll prob. change it again if you do. |
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Muzman
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2001 11:24 am |
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heh, something tells me its already distributed. I was just gonna post the same thing. I wonder how long it'll be before they plug that hole.
Anyways hypermart is another place without linking restrictions |
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