Done. - Jason Shellen

Great. Thanks for listening to my complaints by the way. - Sebastian

Would really love to see you amend your post about Thing Fetcher now that you've gotten in touch. - Jason Shellen

Since I'm not on the tech side of things and late for a meeting, I'm going to recuse myself from the rest of the discussion. I'll let @cw pick up if he's here. - Jason Shellen

I'll update it, telling that you're aware of the problem. I'll be happy to announce that your bot (or non-bot) behaves once it does. Ok? - Sebastian

I've updated my rant http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/social-... : "ThingFetcher update: The owners of ThingFetcher are now aware of the problem, and will try to fix it asap." - Sebastian

@cw I've insulted anonymous developers who didn't respond to my calls for a while. Unfortunately, Rackspace didn't forward my complaints to you, and maybe you didn't watch a SERP for "ThingFetcher". However, I still do think that what you've done is plain evil, or thoughtless, or whatever - IOW wrong. So please let's continue in a civilized manner. I assure you that I don't think you're brain-amputated, now that I've read your replies. The opposite is true. - Sebastian

Glad to be in a better spot with this, but calling someone evil is not civil. Please rethink your approach in effecting change. Goodnight Sebastian. - Jason Shellen

Again, I accept your POV. I think it's just fair that you try to look into this from a content producer's POV. If *your* servers would suffer from a useless boatload of bot traffic you'd call that evil, too. Of course your method to evaluate shortened URIs is thoughtless in the first place, and that'll be it from a developer's POV. But: you didn't identify yourself, you've acted just like any other rogue bot does, so why do you think that a content produce would love you for abusing their resources? Frankly put, don't be that girly. - Sebastian

As for semantics, again: I didn't say you're evil. I said what you've done in the past was evil. It plays no role whether you were aware of your evil doing or not. I'm glad that, once aware of the problem, you've promised to solve it. And I honor that. I've no bad feelings, anymore. - Sebastian

Quote from the update of my rant http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/social-... "Now that I know who’s operating the Twitter app owning ThingFetcher, I’ve removed some insults from above, because they’d no longer address an anonymous developer, but bright folks who’ve just failed once. Too sad that Brizzly didn’t reply earlier to my attempts to identify ThingFetcher’s owner." - Sebastian