Posted by Barbara de Zoete on 02/08/06 00:59

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 23:33:05 +0100, Jochem Huhmann <joh@gmx.net> wrote:

> "Barbara de Zoete" <trashbin@pretletters.net> writes:
>
>>>>> I very much dislike to see someone using those applications on my
>>>>> site. Downloading over a hundred pages and all that comes with them
>>>>> in a short time, for what?
>>>>
>>
> Is archiving a valid purpose? As http://www.archive.org does?
>
> I think when you're publishing anything on the WWW you have to accept
> the fact that people or machines look at and download the stuff.

Look at, downloading while browsing. That's fine, but, hey, I pay the
bandwidth, so I get to decide how it can be used. I don't allow
deeplinking to images, I don't want people to download a random hundred
pages just to look at a dozen of them or so, and throw the rest out.
_Don't_waste_ my bandwidht, _use_ it.


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