[lug] Website links

[Peter Hutnick]

Kyle Moore wrote:

> A spam is evidently going around that includes an image from one of our
> company websites. The spam is html and uses one image link to our site and
> one from another. They didn't even pull it to their own site....wanted to
> use our bandwidth instead.
> 
> Is there any way of stopping this? I changed the name of the image so it
> doesn't show up in the spam anymore but that doesn't stop people from
> emailing me (now mail admin/postmaster too) saying we are sending them
> spam. This site is currently all static pages. I suppose in the future I
> could store my images in a password protected directory (or database) and
> only allow connections from localhost or something...have to think about
> it.

I don't know anything about HTML email, but I would guess that the 
REFERER is consistant.  Seems like you could corece your webserver to 
not cough up the image (or maybe a different one ;-) based on that.

-Peter