[IMC-Dissent-admin] more lousy leechers

[joe]

You do realize that every site hosted on dissent was all but unreachable
for over 12 hours due to this bandwidth abuse, right?

While you may see this as an acceptable downside of your site policies,
it's not fair to assume that all the other users of these shared
resources agree. 

Limiting media linking to indymedia sites obviously won't eliminate the
possibility of any bandwidth misue, but if you look at the links in this
case, the problem would have been prevented.

FYI, you'll have a better time backing up media files with rsync than
through the web anyhow.

cheers,
Joe

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:15:58 -0400, "James Worthington"
<jworthington at atl-imc.org> said:
> please don't change the vhosts for atlanta. i have already removed this
> rewrite rule once. If you noticed, there are several rewrite rules
> already in existance.
> 
> We have a large number of sites who link to our files we wish to allow.
> We have discussed this already.
> 
> the rewrite rules can not prevent any site from lining to the page with
> the media, and downloading diectly
> 
> we will always have to watch for leechers and take action. 
> 
> i have already developed a procedure for dealing with this.
> 
> since we don't wish for these files to be available for download even
> within our site, the rewrite rules don't really solve the problem,
> although they prevent links. but they also prevent good links.
> 
> if you need something done to atlanta, or whatever, please just contact
> me. we will work together on it so you don't mess up any of my
> procedures, etc. 
> 
> just as another example, i backup media files regularly to an offsite
> location. So, since the files were renamed, they were downloaded again
> under the new name. i have chosen to remove permissions instead of
> renaming. and now with the rewrite rules, i can't backup the files
> offsite.
> 
> please communicate with me before taking action on atlanat's site.
> 
> thx
> 
> jrw
> 
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