Several months ago a friend turned me onto the ferret rice box.  To keep
sand, dirt, rice, etc.  in the container (depending on the height of
container, 12 inches or less).  Take the lid to the container and cut out 2
4 inch diameter holes on each end of lid.  This will let the ferrets a way
in and out, also it's cute to watch 'Pop goes the Weasel'.  This works well
with clear containers with white lids.  For containers that are taller (33
gal.), make ramps to go up and in at 1 or 2 of the corners.
 
Bill, I hope you let this thru again.  Hopefully this will take care of
image theft.
 
I posted this 26mar99:
I was sent this from the OJC digest.  (Operation Just Cause).  It is ferret
related when you go to the site and look under F; many of FML subscribers
are there.  You can search thru the rest of the alphabet for much more.
 
*Arriba Vista* is taking images from websites without permission.  They
send a search spider through your web site and they harvest every single
image that you have and they put those image names into a database.  When
someone goes there and does a keyword search, they are given thumbnails of
your image, and when they click the thumbnail, the full size image is
generated (your image from your site) and can be downloaded directly off of
their web site, which means the person never has to visit your site to see
more or to download the image.  To get the full size image, they pull it
directly from your web server.  They are indiscriminate about whose stuff
they pull, I even found a 400K graphic being linked to from a photographers
site :(
 
Go see if you can find any more of your sites graphics there and Gunny I
didn't find your site linked to it yet, but you know a lot of people and
can let them know so they look for their stuff - I am having help but we
are few and their search engine is spider driven. :(
 
We know this is bandwidth stealing.  If you aren't familiar with how web
hosts charge for bandwidth, they generally give you an allotted amount, and
if you go over that, they charge you more money for every MEG that you go
over.  Every time *Arriba* shows the full size image of your image, they
are using your bandwidth which can increase the cost of your web hosting
bill.  Bandwidth should be for the people who actually visit your site, not
this kind of search engines who are making a profit off of your images.
 
*Arriba Vista* is putting all the websites they are pulling images from
into a very prime position to go over the allotted bandwidth allocation and
therefore will be charged more by their web host.  We are suggesting that
you go to http://www.arribavista.com/ and search keywords that you might
have in your site.  If you find your images there do two things write to
them at:
 
[log in to unmask] and request that your images be removed immediately!
 
and that your web site should be placed on the block list so that their
search spiders can not enter and harvest your images.  Request for detailed
information on how you may prevent any further harvesting by their search
spiders.  Then rename your images and upload a graphic that can be
displayed instead *G*
 
Please let your friends who do web building know about this site too.  This
site is making money off a lot of peoples hard work and that is wrong.
Just check it out and if your work is there or your friends work is there
do not hesitate go into action.
[Posted in FML issue 2654]