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Originally Posted by katex
Image Linking
Image linking is no longer permitted, as it’s a form of theft ‘stealing other websites band width’.
Find this rule a little ambiguous, Neil. Don't understand how posting a smiley is theft ?
Have looked at some of the complaints re. Planetsmilies and nobody appears to have the answer.... all conflicting opinions, including many saying nothing to do with your browsers. Just trying to understand it all.
Sob, sob ... see my signature has been removed. Will have to seek out another.
Did put one in my bookmarks that Mick uses.... can I still use this ?
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It goes back in time to before broadband, when you link to a smilie/picture etc. to display on a web page you use a small portion of the hosts' (the web site you are connecting to), bandwidth the more people that link the smaller their bandwidth becomes, so they would have to pay to get a bigger bandwidth because your link was 'stealing' part of their's.
The problem isn't anywhere near as serious these days as it was.