For the past three months I have been getting a lot of automated submissions from a piece of software that users can download to auto submit their websites. I run a small scale search site and have been getting literaly hammered by their submissions to the extent that I gave up on running my own database and now use a third party provider. I am now getting about 20000 code 404 hits due to the add url script being removed. what i want to do is use htaccess to direct all this traffic the software companies homepage. I know it sounds very unethical but I have emailed them on countless ocasions and I feel this is the only way to get my message across. I will set up the htaccess and email them stating exactly what I have done and perhaps then , they might listen. Can anyone see any implications of doing this? after all they have been doing it to me for months now.
all advice very gratefully received.
