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From: artstone@usa.net (Art Stone)
Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks
Subject: AOLSucks: More free stuff from AOL
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:15:25 GMT
Organization: Sending Userid gbisc@ibm.net

If you visit:

http://www.aol.com/images/public/

AOL offers a bunch of Great! (:)) free stuff to use on your web page.

Art Stone
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From: RM <rmartin@spam-foiler.voicenet.com>
Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks
Subject: Re: AOLSucks: More free stuff from AOL
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:52:22 -0500
Organization: None Whatsoever

Art Stone wrote:
>
> If you visit:
>
> http://www.aol.com/images/public/
>
> AOL offers a bunch of Great! (:)) free stuff to use on your web page.

Really? So we can finally get out hands on that program that makes most pages with any amount of photography or 3-D-ish elaborate art accessible from AOL?

You know, that JPG to "AOLart" converter?

How about that great one that makes pages load one or two words at a time?

Surely, you jest. <g>

>
> Art Stone
> --
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From: lindellj@spambusters.org (Lindell B. Jones, Jr.)
Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks
Subject: Re: AOLSucks: More free stuff from AOL
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:54:38 GMT
Organization: SpamBusters, Inc.

On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:15:25 GMT, artstone@usa.net (Art Stone) wrote:

>If you visit:
>
>http://www.aol.com/images/public/
>
>AOL offers a bunch of Great! (:)) free stuff to use on your web page.
>

It's a good thing for AOL that these images are so lame that nobody in their right mind would be caught dead with one of them on their web page. Get a load of how AOL suggests you add these to your page... 
:All you have to do is look through our collections, pick an image that
:reflects your style or just strikes your fancy, and use its URL on your page.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...meaning that every time somebody loaded a page using one of these images, the image would have to be retrieved from AOL's server. Imagine (as hard as it may be to do) if these became popular, and thousands of pages used them. The server that contains these images would grind to a halt, much like the rest of AOL often does. How hard can it be to simply download the image and keep a copy on your ISP's server? Nearly every other web site that I've seen offering images like this makes it very plain that you should download a copy to your own server. But, considering it's AOL, it hardly surprises me...

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