[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
[B]Hi All ~

Looks like our good fortune with http://www.NetSnapShot.com has run out .

As for the disappearing NetSnapShot.com photos ~
Missing photos link to a message stating:

"This item has exceded it's allowed link access"

We think that's puter jive for "It's been called up and viewed too many times". This must be one of the ways NetSnapShot.com is limiting their "free" site without charging money or totally eliminating the viewing of their photos on other sites.
Wonder if there is any way to reset or restore the photo for more off-site viewing?

....I just received an email from Netsnapshots - it began like this:


It's good news and bad news time.

The good news is that netsnapshot is now much faster.

T he bad news, for many of you, is that we opted to deny outside link access to individual images in order to achieve the speed increase.


It went on to say that they would consider doing this for a "fee" if enough users were interested

My hunch is that all such sites will eventually take this approach as apparently the increased traffic (likely mostly from Pettalk) is taxing their server resources. I sent a note back saying that users are frustrated with fees here and fees there and it would be nice if these sites would tell you up front before you go to the trouble of loading things.