Bandwidth theft; it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
This month, for some inexplicable reason, I turned off referrer checking for images on tsfr. This appears to have been a horrible mistake. Normally TSFR gets a couple of hundred visits a day, with about 600 page views and ~1600 total requests for images and whatnot. Today, I was checking to see if anyone commented on any old messages via the simple expedient of checking my system logs, and found that some clueless idiot on FARK had decided to use the Iraqi flag image I put up on TSFR about a year ago, to the tune of 10,000 image fetches from the single-celled amoebas who read and post to that BBS.
Grr. And thttpd doesn't give me the sort of specialized image redirection that a more heavyweight solution like apache would. There are some images I'd love to present to BBSes who feel that TSFR isn't using enough bandwidth. I'm thinking bibles. And ponies. And big-eyed kittens.