For some people, it's not even a choice... living here in university dorms, we're firewalled to hell. There's no way in hell I can connect to steam, and I probably won't be able to jump through whatever hoops that they've deemed "neccesary" for authentication - which means I've just bought a copy of Half-life 2 that I won't be able to play. Even though, technically, I have an internet connection.
There should be some way of specifying that FTP are not allowed to be spidered. There is robots.txt on websites, a similar idea should exist for FTP's...
Or, you could just find out the IP block(s) of the BSA scanners and disallow them from entering the FTP:)
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For some people, it's not even a choice... living here in university dorms, we're firewalled to hell. There's no way in hell I can connect to steam, and I probably won't be able to jump through whatever hoops that they've deemed "neccesary" for authentication - which means I've just bought a copy of Half-life 2 that I won't be able to play. Even though, technically, I have an internet connection.
Great, isn't it?
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There should be some way of specifying that FTP are not allowed to be spidered. There is robots.txt on websites, a similar idea should exist for FTP's... Or, you could just find out the IP block(s) of the BSA scanners and disallow them from entering the FTP :)
TGP, according to the acronym finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com) stands for Thumbnail Gallery Post. The query is here, if you are interested :)