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Should the MeFi complex permanently cache links? Is it legal?
I recently desired to access some link I had added as a comment. My
comment included a link to a PDF of testicle size. However when I now follow the chain the PDF has been removed.
Why was it removed? Either because the link became so popular that somebody figured they could make money off of it, maybe generated by my linking to it, or because of space limitations or reorganizations on the server. Anyway the link and its content have now evaporated and only maybe can I find a new link to it.
The cost/gigabite is now so low that it seems the MeFi complex could cache every link added. As long as the cache was not exposed to the outside to allow google searches (and similar traffic).
If some linked page was once put in the public domain does that mean that once it is removed it is no longer in the public domain?
posted to MetaTalk by MonkeySaltedNuts
at 9:39 PM on June 11, 2007
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I run a
Greasemonkey script that highlights "heavy links" - links such a Youtube or .mov that might take a while to download.
Should this script action be incorporated into the meta universe?
Proper etiquitte is to flag such heavy links but if you Firefox users install this script and say look at
posts tagged with video, you will see many examples of posters who bother to tag their posts but don't flag their links. Then there are many who don’t tag or flag.
Even if you don't support such highlighting at the site (It will just make people lazy), how are my filters? What else do I need to include? [jeez, trying to get the below to display properly was very trying]
HeavyExtensions = ['swf', 'ram', 'rm', 'wmv', 'asx', 'mov', 'pdf', 'mp3', 'mpg', 'mpeg', 'wav'];
HeavyURLs = [
/youtube.com\/.*\?v=/,
/video.google.com\/videoplay/,
/video.google.com\/googleplayer.swf/,
/collegehumor.com\/movies\/.*\//,
]
posted to MetaTalk by MonkeySaltedNuts
at 9:37 PM on July 6, 2006
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Matt, can you add some more class to your comment HTML so that independent scripts such as my
Comment script and
MeFi Navigator have a more assured chance of cohabitating? [by a fluke there turned out to be no fatal interactions]
Also, the best way to quote comments is with a DIV. Can you make this possible? [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by MonkeySaltedNuts
at 10:44 AM on March 18, 2006
(25 comments)
