Road of Peas

I just stumbled on a world of hotlink that has somehow completely eluded my attention.
I glanced through the last few hours of the access log, and found the above image accessed from this URL:

1) http://by104fd.bay104.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg?
2) msg=D52D09D4-A2FD-47AD-928B-255A43A1DD29&
3) mfs=&_HMaction=move&tobox=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002&
4) direction=next&
5) wo=&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&
6) a=e4bd94b7feae98079d3deb5dd6d94579897a58852fd3693e63fa1b8cd663c5ae

Hotmail is a web mail service, the very first one. At first I though that the URL is what happens when an email with the hotlink to my picture is moved from one folder to another. But there is a direction=next on line 4. That may imply that this someone
is scrolling through the folder wherein the email with this hotlink occurs.

I get too much email, webmail is useless for me, and so I am ignorant.

I’ve been trying to create this kind of URL in the access log using my spanking
new hotmail account - no luck so far. I may have to go find a windows box
and try it there. Maybe Windows-to-Windows, how kinky.

There may be a user identification buried in the URL, but I have my doubts as
there’s no good reason to put it there. Then again, this is MS, and I
learned a long time ago that I don’t think the same way they do.

I expect these hotlinks are very deep dark black holes.

Among the 342021 lines in the access log there are 44 hits from hotmail
URLs. Four of them are from email I sent to the ranger at Finley NWR
seeking the identity of the gopher snake I found at Woodpecker Loop - it
references otherwise unpublished photos. The others? I’ll post them all
here as I putz around at understanding hotmail.

The original Middle-Fork post, entitled Fluxion And The Belly Of Love