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[ewx]

Someone has started using this image as their icon on some dutch web bulletin board. This has produced around 160Mbyte of outgoing traffic in 28 days, all of it paid for by a friend of mine (though I'd be as annoyed if it were me paying for it).

I'm open to suggestions as to what I should change the image to say.

Comments

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

That's basically what I put in an image when someone did this exact same thing to me. The traffic usage wasn't as bad in my case, but it's still annoying.

[rillaith.livejournal.com]

Or a single pixel, 2-bit gif to minimise the bandwidth effects, and a post on wherever the referrers are coming from saying Oy! Whoever was using this image, eff off and use your own bandwidth!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It's actually a PNG, which is significant for bandwidth minimization: PNG's compression system has even more scope than GIF for a very small file expanding into an exceptionally large image. This would be kind of unfair on all the innocent people reading the relevant pages, though...