On 1/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Thoughts anyone?  Are there less drastic measures that might
be taken to prevent this kind of abuse?


A couple of people here mentioned CAPTCHA's.  This is sort of the standard
for preventing automated abuse (intentional or unintentional), and there are
lots of example implementations out there, maybe even in whatever "custom
software" you use. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

Even if you don't go the CAPTCHA route, just forcing an HTTP POST to begin a
download will probably filter out a large proportion of errant traffic or
web bots.  I see your robots.txt file is in order for the downloads area,
but of course that's just a gentleman's agreement...

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