Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:06:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Bandwidth theft
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At about 7:30 pm on Monday, two days ago, the web page
http://news.wenxuecity.com/BBSView.php?SubID=news&MsgID=28763
linked to
http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j99/5/9.jpg
causing that Star Wars image on our website to get 39,928 hits.
A week of that would have put our site over our monthly download
quota.  So I renamed that file to 99.jpg, and modified the
corresponding index.htm.  Anyone who looks at the May 1999 WSFA
Journal online should see it as normal, but anyone who looks at
that wenxuecity site should see a blank image where they used to
have our image.

Does anyone have a spare "THIS SITE IS A BANDWIDTH THIEF" image I
can copy to 9.jpg for wenxuecity viewers to enjoy?  Thanks.

I'm not clear on whether going over our monthly download quota would
mean nobody could view our site for the rest of the month, or whether
it would mean we would get a bill for the excess usage.

So long as I keep an eye on things, we should never have to find out.