[gopher] Throttling gopher daemon is desirable

[Cameron Kaiser]

> I figure there hasn't been much call for throttling functionality for 
> gopher daemons.  Today it would have been much appreciated.  Could I 
> convince someone to add a throttle to pygopherd?  I lack the savvy with 
> Python to do it myself.  And now, here's why I bring this up.
> 
> Over a three day period spanning June 16, 17, and 18 of 2013 (UTC), 
> someone attempted and probably suceeded in downloading the entirety of the 
> Interactive Fiction Archive from gopher.feedle.net.  This caused a massive 
> spike in outbound network traffic that has probably cost some money.  I'm 
> not sure yet how much.  We have the logs and are looking into tracking 
> down who did it.  I'll probably post snippets of the logs later.

I'm actually looking into this for Bucktooth, since a lot of the bot
traffic via proxy is causing this sort of trouble. You might have been
victim of the same thing.

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