Substitue a png if you use no other png files on the site. Or point to a hotlink.gif on another site that you own (a subdomain JUST for a hotlink image maybe?). Or, better yet subsitute no image at all "-" . Why use your bandwidth serving hotlink.gif? The object of the exercise is to save your bandwidth dollars that hotlinkers are costing, right? So give them no image
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