Smokin' Award
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Winners: check out these smokin' sites!

Railroad Award Sites: other awards that you could win.

Hook & Eye: visit the railroad site sponsoring the Smokin' Award.

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The images above are not from the Smokin' Award, but are directly linked from another website - The Ol' Hook & Eye. This is known as "Bandwidth Stealing." Bandwidth is simply the amount of data sent from one computer to another. Most Web Hosts limit the amount of data that a site can send during a particular time period. If the bandwidth goes over the set amount, the webmaster is either charged an additional usage fee or his site's transmission is blocked, depending upon the host. Since the images above are being sent from another server, the Smokin' Award is stealing valuable bandwidth from The Ol' Hook & Eye. Unless you have permission to do so, never link files from someone else's server. If you do, your website will not qualify for the Smokin' Award.

NOTE: The above is shown as an example. Since I own both sites and since the Smokin' Award is really a sub-domain of The Ol' Hook & Eye, there is no actual Bandwidth Stealing.
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