Looking for a script
Hi
I dont know whether anyone can help but here goes. Has anyone heard of a script or a means of preventing the emailing of web pages. I have a problem where my web site tutorials are being emailed to Yahoo groups which consist of hundreds of people in one group alone and each time the email is opened its pulling my bandwidth. I could use frames to prevent it but I am bulking at changing the whole site.
Katra
Renegade posted this at 21:23 — 6th November 2003.
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what do you mean? People are linking to your images or something?
Busy posted this at 21:38 — 6th November 2003.
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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
Katra posted this at 21:44 — 6th November 2003.
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Now thats a great idea... I will give it a go thanks so much!!
Katra
Katra posted this at 21:40 — 6th November 2003.
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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
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