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It's only a matter of time before some sysadmin, or automated log analyzer sees you and stops it. You'd be better served to start a distributed scraping and archiving mission going, but, I'm not sure how to start that.


I'm not sure if JS can request pages and send them to you (XSF protection), but it might be worth writing a small script to request URLs from your server, spider them and send the content back.

Then, put it on a website, and tell people "by staying on this page, you are donating bandwidth and helping archive delicious".

It's so no-hassle that I bet you could get a huge following.


I guess this might actually be a great use of 80Legs. Has anyone used them in the past, and if so, did it actually work?


This would be possible with Flash.


Ah, yes! Come to think of it, JS probably couldn't get around the same-origin restrictions of browsers...




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