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Posted by Philip Ronan on 12/19/05 14:52
"Andy Dingley" wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:48:38 GMT, Philip Ronan <invalid@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>> "Andy Dingley" wrote:
>>
>>> First of all, I wouldn't want to do anything with Yahoo because the
>>> Yahoo branding is visible on it and that hurts the business' own image.
>>
>> Untrue, unless I'm missing something. Where's the Yahoo branding here, for
>> example: <http://www.mswrite.com/>?
>
> Yahoo will still be sending their usual 1pixel web bug(s).
I just took a look at the source of mswrite.com, and ... HOLY CRAP WHAT A
MESS!! You're right, it does appear to have some invalid server-generated
drivel after the </HTML> tag. Maybe this is part of an optional site stats
feature that can be turned off? But I guess perhaps not.
> Also, last time I looked - this may have changed - you were subject to
> Yahoo's bandwidth policies. If your site were to get slashdotted, or if
> the images were hot-linked from elsewhere, then the page served gets
> very messy as it sprouts Yahoo's "Bandwidth exceeded" images.
Well 200 GB a month sounds like a lot to me. (I have to pay extra for
everything over 1 GB :sob:)
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