Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01681
To: aubois@trail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:18:24 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: BEAM, Xoom tip
Greetings List,
aubois@trail.com writes:
> (a) If you are using XOOM's site, you explicitly promised that you'd
> either allow popup messages or the banner. If you remove them, you are
> breaking your promise. You ARE ethical, aren't you?
I don't use a XOOM site. I didn't promise a thing to xoom. I am just providing
some "unethical" information to those xoom users who may be interested in it.
How they use it is up to them.
> (b) XOOM very clearly states that anyone found "getting around" this
> particular requirement will have their pages removed without warning.
Another good point. However, this is a risk xoom users may be willing to take.
If you want to stay within the requirements, how about you just put a xoom
banner on your site.
You may want to have a back-up copy of your site on your HD. Not only because
xoom may "have your pages removed without warning" but because these free
website providers have a way of losing entire gigabytes of files on their
servers every now and then. If xoom does remove your site (on accident or
because violation of rules), just get another account using a free email
service and upload those lost files, and your done..... Ok, so maybe I am just
a tad unethical. 8)
> Not my words, just XOOM's.
Yes, and you brought up good points for those who neglect to read the rules.
I'm glad you mentioned all this because I didn't expect that some people might
not have thought about that themselves.
About the tip I gave before, I know why xoom has it this way and I'm pretty
sure they have no way to object to this. It's hard for me to put into words
but I think if you spend a few minutes looking at your site and it's source
code, you'll understand. If I could find this out all on my own, you can find
it with all this help I've given.
One more little addition to my tip, it applies to both HTML and HTM files. I
don't know why I thought this last time...
By the way,
I found that "_XOOM" directory while messing with the source code of a xoom
site after they all started having the little top frame on them. Ever notice
how the xoom sites with frames (excluding the advertisment frame xoom
required) don't have an advertisment frame on the top of all their documents?
If they did, you'd get multiple advertisment frames, one on each of the site's
frames. Starting to get it? No? Well, it should be sinking in if you know a
very little about how the internet works.
Any response or additions are welcome.
-TurtleTek
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