So...here's your chance to vote for Film-Tech's "Champion Bumper Upper". Brad Miller's decision will be final. Maybe he can devise a prize for the winner!!

All in good fun, so VOTE NOW.

Ah yes, Charles Everett. The man with over 800 posts and yet no picture to his name. (That's another hint Charles. )

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Many times I see a topic that interests me, click on it and find the original post is ancient history.

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~Manny (bumping and grinding his way to the top!)

...Just kidding!

Seriously:

John, I think that's a great idea but there are certain threads that lend themselves to "bumping."

"Who the HECK are you?" is one that readily comes to mind.

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Also, in a similar vein, is whatever makes no-bookmarking work the same way that free web space sites prevent images hosted on their servers from being called by other sites' html? I was doing that for a time until they blocked it: HTML in my own space with the image files at Angelfire or Geocities thus gaining lots of space with the visitor seeing no popups or ads.

The anti-bookmark thing is implemented on the server side; essentially it returns the "no bookmarking" page unless the HTTP_REFERRER URL is from another page on Film-Tech. It's not perfect (and can easily be worked around on the client side if anyone cared enough to do it), but it works well enough for Film-Tech, geocities, and others.

The disclaimer is presumably one of those things that a lawyer would say is not a bad idea but in my decidedly non-professional opinion serves more to discourage a libel action but would do little if one actually went to court. (Example: I libel John Doe in posting. Doe sues me. I say.."Nah Ah...you agreed to play nice when you clicked yes on the disclaimer. Doe says, nope, I never agreed to anything. My buddy read your nasty post and faxed it to me. He might be bound but I'm sure not.)

So if you're going somewhere via a bookmark or hand typed URL the "HTTP_REFERRER" is null, right? I mean you're on a, um, shall we say, "disreputable" site and then click on a bookmark the 2nd site doesn't get to know where you just were, does it?

Honestly though, I bet it would be a pain in the ass to keep a record like that on any members. And I don't know why anyone would. Who cares what other sites people visit? Except you, Steve, you need to stop looking at that stuff.

Actually if I had a hankering for such material why bother with web sites when Kazaa is full of video.

Anyway, would anyone bother if it *were* possible to read prior sites? Perhaps. I used to find it interesting to scan the logs of my site to see what people looked at. I suppose if it listed where they were before it might be mildly amusing.

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