[gopher] gopher proxies

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Wed Jul 24 20:35:28 UTC 2013


> > AhrefsBot is relentless. They don't seem to obey robots.txt, and
> > will just hammer a server for non-existent links.  So are you
> > suggesting that it's the proxy that should be responsible for
> > filtering this in some way?
> 
> Some of them already do. The floodgap proxy, for instance, has a blackhole
> for bots to wander about in.

The proxy doesn't. The webserver does -- I don't want abusive bots on my
sites at all.

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