[gopher] (no subject)

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > That someone is probably a web robot. I've had a few go-rounds with the
> > proprietor of gopherproxy.org when I temporarily blocked it for DOSing the
> > Twitter->gopher gateway after causing it to exceed its rate limit.
> 
> The problem is it seems to be using some old cached info about the site, I 
> see tons of access to files with the wrong type selector and to mboxs in 
> the old umn gopherd style with R (subrange from file Rstart-end-).

Right, that's why I suspect it's a web robot checking old links out. The
real hell of it is it's going to do it forever, because the gopherproxy will
never return a 404. And this is another reason we don't want web robots
crawling proxies.

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