Why is it that people who use mirror software have no 
respects for other people's property? Some of us spend 
several hours each day working on our sites and pay for 
them out of our own pockets. We have bandwidth limitations, 
and when we go over the limit our site is blocked for 
**everyone**.  
 
In order to keep the site open for everyone we ask people 
not to suck the whole thing at once, but use it as you need 
it. However, there are many people who use programs like 
HTTrack that don't care about the work and money that 
individuals put into their web site and suck down the sites 
anyway. So rather than spending our time adding content and 
improvements we have to spend time dealing with our hoster 
to reactivate the site, or add features that block people 
from doing things they where asked not to. 
 
Sucking a site against the owner's permission is worst than 
spam . Spam is an annoyance, but in most cases spammers are 
not doing something against the specific request of that 
person. However, when I tell someone not to suck my site 
and they do it anyway, that is a direct, intentional 
violation of my property and my rights.