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Old January 11th, 2009
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Default Re: Why are member posted links converted to PAFOA referrers?

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Originally Posted by ungawa View Post
I am speaking of people posting links to other websites. Please take a look at the link in the first post of this thread for an example of what I am talking about.

http://forum.pafoa.org/lounge-108/44...ou-google.html

Usually the purpose of this is to provide a referrer to the target site. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by RocketFoot View Post
I'm not sure what you're talking about?

www.google.com

There doesn't seem to be any other info in the external link I just posted.
Apparently it is only adding the redirection to URLs that are posted in the Lounge. In the Lounge post that ungawa cited, the URL
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5488934.ece
is converted to
Code:
http://forum.pafoa.org/re​direct-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesonline.co.uk%2Ftol%2Fnews%2Fenvironment%2Farticle5488934.ece
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