Mike

Good question! This thread almost needs to be a front page poll. At the moment, I have over $11k invested (err... spent) on my '71 240z. And, it's still a shell!!!!

Guys, she might have deserted the Z-business for various reasons. IMHO, it wasn't done the right way, but, it sounds like she might have given it up. Whatever the reasons, I believe she had a great little business and her methods were TOP notch. Now, after reading this thread, am I to believe there are a few members of this site that have sent her money and have not received the parts? -- Mike

Oh MY! They finally made a yellow one. That is a gorgeous looking car. I should put that one next to my yellow '71.

What format is it? BMP, JPG, GIF, TGA, TIFF, or ???

Man, this situation is pretty freaky. Now that we can go back through the history, we can see it was a sudden thing and it doesn't appear to be foul-play because minimal people were affected (ie: not a screw job). Whom-ever is shipping products for Chloe appears to be doing it out of obligation. As soon as the obligations are met, I have a feeling it will cease all-together. I'm just guessing here, but, this evidence makes me think that either a sickness or death (direct or indirect to Chloe) was to be at fault here. Is there a way to search the obituaries in that area? -- Mike

Hi Texasz, The links area is here. The downloads is part of it now. -- Mike

Yea, I have some Zpression at the moment. It's been about 6 years since I drove my classic Z. Major Zpression!!

Thanks for the opinions guys. I appreciate it. However, don't lose focus of the original question. Should we go back to the old way (allowing right-click-download) or keep the new system that prevents any kind of download ? We will ALWAYS have copyright notices on the site and watermarking on the images.

I don't want to provide that option because I don't think I can make it a reality. -- Mike

Simple answer? No. But, it *IS* possible. We're talking quite a bit of development effort to make something like this fly.

Good idea MikeW. I like it.

This has been a hot discussion in our forums. Please give us your opinion. I want to know about the majority vote. At the moment, we are protecting images in the photo gallery from download. Simply put, if someone tries to save your images, our system will prevent them or at least make it a lot more difficult. Do you think we should allow people to download images from the gallery or is this something you think should be protected?

I take that as a compliment. Thanks!! But, actually I saw a need to add some extra effort in this area. Although it did take a few hours to research and develop, the effort wasn't that bad. There were a few comments about how we didn't take action to protect the images, so, I wanted to remedy that. So far, I have done the following to protect your images in the gallery: 1) Right-click does not allow a user to save. 2) Copyright notice on the bottom of the web page. 3) Copyright notice pop-up when someone right-clicks. 4) Watermark on the images. 5) Anti-leeching code that does not allow other websites to display our images on their systems. -- Mike

I've made another change to the gallery. When someone right-clicks on the image it pops up a window with a copyright notice. It doesn't totally prevent hackers saving your stuff. But, it makes it a lot more difficult. Other than hoarding all of the images to your own personal computer, I don't think there is a way to totally PREVENT anyone from accessing your pictures. This is a war that really can't be won. It's something that has existed on the Internet for years. Just look at the Napster fiasco. Anyway, this kind of thing will help keep the honest people more honest. That's all we can do for now. -- Mike

Hi Camo! Sorry you don't see how we've made the attempt. Because, I have done what I can to protect your stuff.

It shouldn't be sending messages because it doesn't exist.

Can't we all just get along?

Your links don't work. But, they do have some nice other Nissan's ! Check out the early Z's!! http://www.toyeast.com/v2/prodlist.asp?catid=266

The mailing list is offline until I get a chance to re-compile the mailing list software. It's proven to be a challenge because I am using a different mail transport agent (MTA). I'm holding off until I can figure out how the virtual sites are set up. I should be able to get it running in the next month...

Carl, what would we do without you?

Yes, hoard all of your photos and never share them with anyone. This is divine wisdom. By the way, do you have a link to that Ebay auction so we can report the offender?

So true.

Let's explore this concept a little more... In theory, if you take a snapshot of something, the photograph belongs to you. When you upload that image to our site, it still belongs to you. By uploading it to our site, you are publishing the photo so that other people may see it. This is your decision. To help protect your images, we normally add an identifying watermark to the image. And, we have also installed "anti-leeching" code to the images to prevent people from saving the images to their own hard-drive. (have you tried to right-click on an image in the gallery to 'save-as' lately?) Other than keeping all of your images to yourself, there is no way to control how they are ultimately used by other members. But, that wouldn't be any fun now, would it? (I can just see a few of you hoarding your photos like lonely trolls under a bridge saying, "Mine, mine, mine!") We have done all we can to protect your photos. But, ultimately the responsibility is up to you once the photo has been posted.