Try: [link]

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.*.)?buffistas.org/.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.*.)?xanga.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ [link] [R,NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*\\.)?buffistas.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*\\.)?provocateuse.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*\\.)?worldcrossing.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ [link] [R,NC]


Damn.

That works.

I swear that's what I had in there earlier today ....

I got "hotlinking is bad."

I got xanga.gif.

Which Firefox helpfully resized so that the text was really teeny.

Browser caches. I had to clear mine before I'd get the teeny text.

I'm not even going to pretend to understand what I did wrong this morning.

Eddie, thank you VERY much. And thank you guys for clicking on stuff. Let me take buffistas out of that bad person list...

You'll be sure to let us know whatever reactions you get from excluding the naughty people, right?

No problem, I like doing stuff like this. I'm sick in the head that way.

Browser caches. I had to clear mine before I'd get the teeny text.

When I test, I test in a different browser from the one I use to reap links. And then ask the invisible people to try too. So I don't think that was it. Probably a typo instead. You'd think I could type buffistas.org by now, eh?

Browser caches.

I don't think so, at least in my case. When I tried the links this morning, it didn't work, and since I don't normally go to that site, the page couldn't have been in the cache.