Katra — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:44:04 +0000

Busy wrote: I had a similar problem not so long ago, what I ended up doing is blocking the sites via .htaccess
block

Now thats a great idea... I will give it a go thanks so much!!

Katra

Katra — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:40:49 +0000

No I can cure hot linking with my htaccess file, but when someone posts a whole web page via the email option, at the top of their browser, to a Yahoo group it is then sent out to the group members inboxes and every time a page downlaods in their inbox it takes my bandwidth. So for example if I have a tutorial that is 4 to 5 web pages long, and someone emails the pages into the Yahoo its then sent out to each individual member's inbox who then opens it and that effectively downloads my pages again and again, you can imagine how much bandwidth is taking up.

Katra

Busy — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:38:33 +0000

I had a similar problem not so long ago, what I ended up doing is blocking the sites via .htaccess

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from .sitename.com
deny from groups.google.com

sitename is example name, google groups is one I block, (don't block it just because I do, only if they deserve it) if you just put the domain name (dot in front) it will block people taking stuff and from entering from that place (they can still type in the url ok), the google one I had to have the 'groups' in front otherwise I'd be blocking the google bot.
.sitename.com will block www.sitename.com, sitename.com, groups.sitename.com, sub.folder.sitename.com ... but if you put groups.sitename.com it will only block from there up, so sitename.com would still be able to get your stuff.

Just be very careful who/how you block

Renegade — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 21:23:28 +0000

what do you mean? People are linking to your images or something?