Hotlinkers beware! Whenever you generate more than, say, 25,000 requests to my server, you will get the pancake face of doom. It may be a small fraction of my total bandwidth allotment, but when it begins happening at such a scale it transcends ‘annoying’ and becomes ‘rude.’
The saga of my interactions with the MySpace hotlinkers began here. Here is one of the many offending sites. This one has generated 700 image requests during the last thirty days.
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What punishment do you suggest for those who end sentences with prepositions?
I believe the word is ‘owned’. Though I think these days the kids spell it ‘pwn3d’ or something…
Here are some good suggestions for those having trouble with hotlinking.
Also useful, on custom error pages.