On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:10 AM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 3/30/2011 8:45:10 AM Pacific
Daylight Time,
overlordq(a)gmail.com writes:
No, because remote loading is an unacceptable use
of the website and
likely to get you blocked. >>
I disagree with this opinion. Cite your source.
Or you know, you could dig through the mailing lists and IRC logs and
see all the times it's happened. Not saying it's guaranteed to happen,
but it is a likely outcome if the requests are considered abusive.
As Chad mentioned, caching it for reasonable period such as a day or
so would generally be considered nice enough to not warrant actions.