It seems to me that the *main* objection to the Lycos image system is that it links directly to the image file instead of the page containing it. As a result, Lycos presents our images sans context. I don't like this idea, and I think it also does the users of the system a disservice. Someone using a link from Lycos doesn't see the true title of the image, the name of the photographer, the list of equipment and media used, and any discussion of when, where, what, why, and how. Anyone accessing our images via Lycos sees them in a vacuum. The generation of thumbnails by Lycos seems to me to be entirely sensible if one is going to have an image search engine. Look at Google, which quotes a few salient pieces of each indexed page and even provides a cached copy. I use Google frequently and find both of these features useful, esp. when the original page is on a slow or inaccessible server. After all, we *want* people to come to the PUG, don't we? Isn't the whole point to document what people are producing with Pentax equipment? I suggest that we need to find the address of someone high up in Lycos and write them a letter explaining why we object to the present system and demanding that they change their system to record the URL of the page containing each image instead of the image file URL itself. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org.
