Fwd: Hdup feature suggestion

(Sorry if you get this twice, I sent to frodo.miek.nl before an it
appeared to bounce)

Hi - I was just thinking it would be really nice to tell hdup to
ignore a directory or directory heirarchy by placing a file actually
in that directory, sort of like .htaccess. This would be useful
because frequently I will put large files in a public location so
people can download them, but I don't want them backed up.

Rather than having to specifically configure hdup to exclude that
directory for one time, it would be nice if I could add a file called
".hdup" which might contain a directive like "exclude=yes" or
"exclude=yes, recurse=yes" to tell it to exclude this directory and
all subdirectories.

I suppose for this to work, hdup would need to scan the filesystem
first and make a list of all directories to exclude.

What do you think?

Regards,

James Treworgy