{
"subject": "Re: Who's the Spanish jerk draining the Faucet?",
"content": {
"format": "html",
"body": "<div class=\"post\">Silently failing would look bad.<br/><br/><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704.msg7575#msg7575\">Quote from: gavinandresen on August 04, 2010, 08:40:55 PM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">1. Rate limit based on the first byte of the IP address (79. or 81. in this case).<br/></div>Definitely needed. What rate are you thinking of? Ultimately, it's better to rate limit it than to let it all drain out.<br/><br/><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704.msg7575#msg7575\">Quote from: gavinandresen on August 04, 2010, 08:40:55 PM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">3. Rate limit based on last two domains of reverse DNS lookup of the IP address (rima-tde.net in this case).<br/></div>That might work surprisingly well. If it works, it keeps them from hitting the rate limit, but the rate limit is there as the last line of defence. <br/><br/><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704.msg7575#msg7575\">Quote from: gavinandresen on August 04, 2010, 08:40:55 PM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">4. Make the standard amount given away 0.5 Bitcoins (Bitcoins have gone up 10 times in value since I started the Faucet).<br/></div>Definitely time to lower it. <br/></div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=704.msg7703#msg7703"
},
"date": "2010-08-05T17:06:03Z"
}