[Avian(Admin)]

The abuse of the automatic request feature on Aural Moon has become so much of a problem that I have disabled the automatic handling of requests. People are spoofing their IP address to make multiple requests (10-30) at a time, sometimes monopolizing the station's time for many hours at a stretch.

When I'm around, I'll be manually sending your request through (once I've verified that you are not one of the abusers)- but if I'm not, don't expect to hear your request.

It's unfortunate that a few individuals' thoughtlessness can ruin such a great system. However, it's better than everyone spending their time listening to the music requested by the same few people.

I am taking measures to prevent this from happening again, but if folks persist on abusing the feature, I'm sure they'll find a way around it. That means that the requests could remain disabled for an extended period of time.

It amazes me that people can take a service such as ours, which does nothing but generously provide art and entertainment free of charge or advertising, and find ways to prevent it from happening. Mind boggling, really.

- Avian

P.S. One idea is to have everyone register and log in to the web site before they can make requests. But this is beyond my current knowledge of php scripting, SQL and such. If you have such skills, and would like to lend a hand, your help would be greatly appreciated!