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Old 01-18-2004, 11:32 AM
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This is an annectdotal digression on "photos."

On Jan 6th, I took a call from someone with a free personal webspace (which we don't tech in WH); however, since they only receive support through offshore outsourced email, I usually try to zero in and see if it's a minor fix or configuration that I can give before sending them on their way.

In this particular case, a very agitated man was concerned because he'd used up all of his bandwidth on his personal website already, had generated a 2nd email address with 10mb more space and a new bandwidth allocation and then had tied the two sites together. He couldn't understand how "just some pictures of his house and yard" were using up all of this bandwidth.

I took a look. Ummmm, errrrm, the first two photos were NOT of house and garden. All of his photos were on a single page and he didn't realize that if one went to the site to view one thing, ALL downloaded. I explained that "in my experience, nude photos of gay men tend to attract a certain amount of interest" and that if he didn't want to keep repeating the error, he should divide his site up into several pages. And, that if he expected his mother and "non-interested" friends to visit his website to view his house and garden, that, perhaps, he shouldn't have his first photos being of him in his altogether. (I knew that he was gay due to his choices for mailbox names.)
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