I agree with an earlier comment in another thread:

This wonderful forum became a "people image sharing site" from the very beginning...very few posting simply ask questions...most want to share people photographs.

I lost my host service and just learned today how to pull images from the photo.net gallery, but I don't really want to "use" the gallery as an image hosting service and I'm not ready to set up my own website. I think that using photo.net for image hosting is an abuse of their gallery services.

Is there any way to make posting easier here, such as is done on the photo.net forums, since most posts here are images?

-- Todd Frederick (Fredrick@hotcity.com), June 30, 2001

Answers

Altaf--you are amazing, THANKS!!!

-- shawn (shawngibson_prophoto@yahoo.com), July 03, 2001.

Well, I suppose we could ask Photo.Net to host us. That would bring more traffic to their site and justify them providing storage space for our images.

Alternatively, we could get find a different free - or almost free - host. A friend of mine runs a hosting service. Let me see what he can come up with.

-- John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com), July 01, 2001.

I was also thinking of coding up a nicer version of this software (that doesn't depend on a $30,000 Oracle installation)... perhaps I should start in on it? I can run it on my personal server if need be. How much traffic / storage space do you think the PP forum requires?

-- Josh Wand (josh@joshwand.com), July 02, 2001.

cool Al! I was thinking of suggesting this to you! lol! Some of these gun photographers can even join the usefilm.com crowd in other subject matter!

-- Nigel Smith (nlandgl@unite.com.au), July 03, 2001.

Kudos and thanks to Altaf.

I'm lucky enough to have 100s of megabytes of spare server space that I can use for personal projects (but not, sadly, offer to others), but if I ever make the move into the Real World (TM) I'll fill usefilm.com with baby pics :-)

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), July 04, 2001.

I, too, post my images to Usefilm. People are eager to offer advice and critic beyond the, "Hey that's a great image!". Many pros canvas this site and will always offer support that the industry does not. I would recommend this site highly to anyone that is serious about improving their photography.

-- John Shephard (info@johnshephard.com), July 04, 2001.

spam? Never Altaf. It's people like you who keep this place going...

As for those real spammers lately...don't worry; we have plans for you!!!

shawn

-- shawn (seeinsideforever@yahoo.com), July 04, 2001.