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THIS IS WHERE
I'LL LIST SITES
YOU SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR
(IF YOU KNOW OF ANY SITES YOU'D LIKE LISTED HERE
PLEASE WRITE TO ME AND EXPLAIN THE SITUATION)
To Learn Moure About "HOTLINKING"
Visit My
HOTLINKING
PAGE
All links on this page will
open in a new window.
THE FIRST SITE
August 2003
I
want to warn all website owners that there is a webmaster
who lists what he considers * "Something
Awful". * (sometimes he changes the front page
URL) He urges his little dysfunctional followers to submit
sites that others would find 'awful'. After the site
is listed, his faithful servants ..... er .... I mean .....
visitors go to the listed site and spam it, causing it to
go over the allotted bandwidth, therefore shutting the site
down. If there is a guestbook or bulletin board at the
site, they will all spam that as well with disgusting language
and filthy pornographic pictures. (and I mean HUGE pics for bandwidth usage, usually hotlinked from other sites)
Sometimes the site
is listed only one day and I have heard he keeps an Archive
page for his 'pets' to go through so they can invade the websites
at will later on.
My site was spammed
for three days. (it is still being visited from his
site through the archive page) My guestbook had filth posted
like you would not believe - both pictures as well as horrid
messages. They're definitely people who have had terrible
upbringing. Some of them have a vast knowledge of computers
and attempt to hack into your site. As I read the messages,
I could simply tell those who had an education and those who
were merely a$$holes who had nothing better to do with their
idle time. I could just picture a few of them sitting
at their child's computer that was given to the child through
a program at school for dis-advantaged, welfare children because
daddy is too lazy to go out and work to support his family.
Guess you might say WE paid for them so daddy can run cyberspace
and spam sites that jerk at SomethingAwful lists. They're
very good followers who probably can't think for themselves..
Judgmental pea-brains who are most likely proud of their 'work'!
I believe the owner of
the site owns the server, therefore if/when you complain,
it doesn't do any good. I have a few people working
on this problem but until HE breaks the law, there isn't anything
that can be done. He's a smart cookie who gets his jollies
having his ignorant followers do his dirty work for him.
If anyone gets caught, he could easily and honestly state
that he lists sites and has no control over what his 'visitors'
do and he's absolutely correct. Such a pity there are so many
people out there who are controlled by him. So you see,
hate-mongers who have an education play it safe while spewing
their bigotry and hatred throughout the world. Mighty
clever, huh? Well one day I'm sure his efforts to cause
trouble with innocent web owners will be stopped. Until
then, be careful out there!
Oh, I forgot - he also
ignores copyrighted pictures on your site by stealing them
to post in his "review" of your 'awful' site.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE
SITE OWNER:
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Kyanka, Richard
(19603073I),
PO Box 9448, Seattle, WA 98109-0448, US, Phone=206-250-5050,
F fax: 123 123 1234
Rich
"Lowtax" Kyanka, President, Founder
Experience:
Systems Administrator for Vanderbilt Vision Research Center
Content Director for Gamespy
Content Director for Gamefan
Chief of Webmaster Relations for Gamers.com
Chief of Webmaster Relations for eFront
Programmer / Designer for Fusion Inc.
Contract Writer for NVIDIA
Owner of Something Awful Inc. and http://www.somethingawful.com/
THE SECOND SITE
August 2003
It seems that Community
Connect, Inc condones their members constant
practice of stealing bandwidth. Ever since the jerkassed webmaster
at SomethingAwful listed my URL on his site quite a few members
at BlackPlanet.com and MiGente have been doing that very thing
to my site. This is why my site went down while it was being
hosted by Bravenet Pro. It seems they love to HOTLINK to other
website files for graphics. Oh yes!! My site was being hit
hundreds of times (& still is to this day but they aren't
getting any graphics from me anymore) do to the theft ALLOWED
by the hosting company. I wrote to Communities Connection
and explain the problem. They're well aware that this practice
is against the law, plus it steals bandwidth from the site
that where the graphic sits. The answer I got from them was
nothing short of, "Tuff shit!"
Sometimes the webmaster of the
sites aren't aware of hotlinking on their sites because they're
'guests' sign their guestbooks and include the hotlinking
there. I wrote to them and explained it with proof by sending
them their HTML code. The ones who answered my request to
take the links off their pages were very hostile to say the
least. PLUS their command of the English language and spelling
were/are the poorest I've ever seen. They outdo ME!!
When I first discovered the practice
being done on my site I uploaded very nasty graphics in the
place of the ones they were stealing. That didn't stop them
and I'll be damned if I'm going to take the time to re-name
my files.
I now use a script that my host
provides to stop the hotlinking.
INFORMATION
ABOUT THE COMMUNITY CONNECT, INC :
Registrant:
Community Connect (COMMUNITYCONNECT-DOM)
494 Broadway 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012
US
Domain Name: COMMUNITYCONNECT.COM
Administrative Contact:
Montero, Michael (MM4016) mike@MAIL.COMMUNITYCONNECT.COM
Community Connect
303 E 5TH ST
BROOKLYN, NY 11218-2405
US
(917) 649-7224
Technical Contact:
Administrator, Interport Domain (JR181) domreg@rcn.com
Interport Communications
1133 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10010-7903
US
212-989-1128 fax: 212-989-0453
Record expires on 24-Oct-2009.
Record created on 09-Oct-2002.
Database last updated on 29-Aug-2003 17:31:31 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.COMMUNITYCONNECT.COM 209.10.169.50
NS2.COMMUNITYCONNECT.COM 209.11.34.34
So far that's it but I'm sure there will be
more added as time goes by. If you have knowledge of sites
that should be listed so others can be aware of them, please
drop me a line at RICKIE
LEE's.COM
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