Stu wrote:

>
> I run a script to deter people from stealing off my domain, I have one
> area that I allow copying so no script.

So do I. It's called robots.txt - but it is only a deterrent as you say.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt

<quote>

Disadvantages

The protocol is purely advisory. It relies on the cooperation of the web
robot, so that marking an area of a site out of bounds with robots.txt
does not guarantee privacy. Some web site administrators have tried to
use the robots file to make private parts of a website invisible to the
rest of the world, but the file is necessarily publicly available and
its content is easily checked by anyone with a web browser.
</quote>

> What I manly put the sig on
> for is sites like foodbanter and others, I like to give them a heads
> up that I won't tolerate theft of things I post. If more people did
> this the leeches wouldn't be able to exist.

Problem is, if there was an easy legal way to stop sites
doing 'mirroring' of Usenet posts they would have been taken down long
ago...
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