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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

403 Go Away!

Web developer Ryan Tomayko had one of his posts "dugg" on Digg, which caused him to notice the knuckle-dragging stupidity of the typical Digg user. Nothing surprising about that, of course: it's just another illustration of John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, which is well known from Usenet, Slashdot, blog comments and so on.

Most people shrug and get on with life, but Tomayko came up with a humorous response. Follow the link from Digg and his site responds with a message that reads:



403 Go Away!



The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprieter of this system is frankly terrified by you people. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated.



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