Re:One more reason not to Blog
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That's why you have your ISP set up an alternate account that has write access to one directory, that being the one where the blog files are stored.
But judging by all the other comments here, most of you guys think that people that use Blogger are a bunch of morons or are a bunch of undersexed teenage girls spouting off on how cute the latest TV teen is.
I've been considering the idea of only allowing deep linking on my site. If anyone comes to my index page without passing through another page on my site, I would wisk them away to another galaxy or something.
With regard to sites checking the http_referer header, most personal firewalls allow you to block that. Doing that makes it appear that you arrived just by typing in the URL.
Also, couldn't you just use javascript (document.location = someurl) to link to a site. That should prevent the http_referer field and the destination server wouldn't know you came from another site.
Verisign isn't the only company doing this. I occasionally get faxes marked urgent, telling me my domain name is going to expire, and I can renew it by calling this number (I forget the company). I get letters from Register.com warning me my domains are going to expire, and that I should renew with them. I get them from some other companies, but I throw them away and I don't remember who they were.
Someone else commented about Verisign's service regarding address forwarding and email accounts. I couldn't care less about those services. I bought a domain name and I use an ISP to host it. I get web space, email accounts, etc. Why would you want to use a registrar for this?
I have four domains with Verisign and haven't had any problems with them. I don't get any renewal letters until my domains are about to expire, I haven't had any strange bills.
There are plenty of other registrars out there besides Verisign that are involved in sleazy activity. Just because they are a rather large company doesn't mean they are evil.
I was gonna post along those same lines. The web server or pages could be configured to ignore requests that don't have a referer from the hosting site.
I saw an Apache config somewhere that would prevent images from being served if they weren't requested from that server. It's the same thing.
But, this is America, we're not supposed to use technology, we're supposed to use lawyers.
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How about something useful like .movies and .radio.
That's why you have your ISP set up an alternate account that has write access to one directory, that being the one where the blog files are stored.
But judging by all the other comments here, most of you guys think that people that use Blogger are a bunch of morons or are a bunch of undersexed teenage girls spouting off on how cute the latest TV teen is.
Anyone got any friends at Google?
I've been considering the idea of only allowing deep linking on my site. If anyone comes to my index page without passing through another page on my site, I would wisk them away to another galaxy or something.
With regard to sites checking the http_referer header, most personal firewalls allow you to block that. Doing that makes it appear that you arrived just by typing in the URL.
Also, couldn't you just use javascript (document.location = someurl) to link to a site. That should prevent the http_referer field and the destination server wouldn't know you came from another site.
Verisign isn't the only company doing this. I occasionally get faxes marked urgent, telling me my domain name is going to expire, and I can renew it by calling this number (I forget the company). I get letters from Register.com warning me my domains are going to expire, and that I should renew with them. I get them from some other companies, but I throw them away and I don't remember who they were.
Someone else commented about Verisign's service regarding address forwarding and email accounts. I couldn't care less about those services. I bought a domain name and I use an ISP to host it. I get web space, email accounts, etc. Why would you want to use a registrar for this?
I have four domains with Verisign and haven't had any problems with them. I don't get any renewal letters until my domains are about to expire, I haven't had any strange bills.
There are plenty of other registrars out there besides Verisign that are involved in sleazy activity. Just because they are a rather large company doesn't mean they are evil.
I was gonna post along those same lines. The web server or pages could be configured to ignore requests that don't have a referer from the hosting site.
I saw an Apache config somewhere that would prevent images from being served if they weren't requested from that server. It's the same thing.
But, this is America, we're not supposed to use technology, we're supposed to use lawyers.