Hi all, just thought I'd mention something that's been bugging me a bit, I've noticed that a few ppl on this board are using GIFs from InternetBumperStickers.com.
I myself have gotten some amazing little GIFs from that site, they seriously kick the llama's ass!
There is only one thing: those nice guys at InternetBumperStickers pay real money for the bandwidth they use, and when you guys link to their images in your sigs, that means that every unique IP that views this page (provided they are using an image-enabled browser) is going to download that image from their servers. You might think that these tiny 2K GIFs are nothing, but believe me, I was an administrator for a couple of websites, and the bandwidth adds up, and pretty soon you're paying through your nose for other people free loading.
The solution is a simple one: merely copy the files to your computer, find a server where you can stick them that allows public HTTP access to files you can upload to it, FTP them onto the server, and then update your sigs to point to the new image location. This way you can help keep InternetBumperStickers up for longer (as they are apparently rapidly running out of money ), and you can still keep your sigs.
OK, maybe I should stop talking now, hehe!
Take care,
Derek
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