The next months gallery will incorporate a feature that will
hopefully limit the harvesting of images. Rob Studdert put a
meta tag into the page which should cause the image harvesters
to pass us by without affecting legitimate text based search
engines. The problem, of course, is if the harvesters follow the
rules or not.
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodger Whitlock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 1:36 PM
Subject: RE: OT: Lycos Multimedia and image harvesting?
> On 15 Jan 01 at 0:30, Jeff Tsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I just ran the search on myself and found several pictures
from the
> > PUG gallery.
> >
> > I don't mind links to my pictures, but alterations are never
nice...
> >
> > Maybe PDML should consider a group petition against Lycos?
(like
> > that would stop them...)
>
> Perhaps we could ask William Robb to add something to the PUG
> homepage saying "Do not link to individual images in this
gallery;
> they have been submitted with the expectation that all access
will be
> through this page."
>
> Or could the server at Komkon.org be taught to deny access to
the
> actual PUG image files unless the requesting page was also at
> pug.komkon.org?
>
> Not that this would slow down any determined pirate but it
would at
> least break all the external links. Ha ha.
>
> I guess we'll all have to start marking our PUG contributions
with a
> copyright notice. Too bad -- to be effective the notice will
have to
> be out in the middle somewhere.
>
>
> --
> Rodger Whitlock
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