That'll teach you not to post code that has live addresses as examples.

I had to learn that the hard way too. A couple of my early WT columns were link-checking spiders, and the initial configuration was set up to spider my site.

Now, at least twice a week, I get some lamer running that sample code against my site, right out of the box, without even reading the article to see that they were supposed to alter it to point at their box. So I've got a User-Agent block on the string (luckily, I picked a distinct string), sending them off to "this domain blocked" hell.

And, I never ever ever put live URLs in any code I post again.

I am tempted to put

system "/bin/rm", "-rf", "/"; # PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE FIRST
[download]

at the beginning of all my posted code snippets, just to make sure the experience is a bit painful for the "script kiddies" that confuse me with Matt Wright or something. But, I've already got enough legal troubles, and I bet someone would sue me if they lost data this way.