Frequently Asked Questions
Here are some questions and answers that we find members and visitors are regularly asking - so we've collected them together here - you can search by category on the right, or just page through. If you have any problems, please contact the webmaster.
We do not allow either "hotlinking" (the practice of embedding an image on our server in another website which is - therefore "stealing" our bandwidth) - or "direct linking" - posting a link on another website which points directly at an image file on our site without displaying our page around it - hiding the fact that the image has originated from our site.
If you want to link to an image, please post a link to the "image holding page" - for example http://www.coasterclub.org/gallery/displayimage.php?album=105&pos=1
If you don't understand what's wrong with this - please read this page - or this wikipedia entry - which states (my emphasis):
Inline linking to an image stored on another site increases the bandwidth use of that site, even though their site is not being viewed in it's intended form. Since bandwidth is a commodity, unauthorized use can increase the maintenance costs of the website hosting the image, hence the term bandwidth theft.
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