On 23 January 2013 13:24, Georgiy Tugai <[email protected]> wrote:

> However, this is also an avenue for denial of service - someone could
> create many links to different images with non-standard sizes,
> intentionally or unintentionally, and therefore overload computational
> (temporarily) and storage resources on the server.
>

Note that this has been debated at least a few times in the past. See e.g.
the thread at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/63701/

-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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