[gopher] Joining in: I'm the maintainer/host of Gopher Proxy

[Bradley D. Thornton]

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On 09/13/2013 06:08 AM, Evert Meulie wrote:


> Well, a simple solution for Bradley (and all others who aren't into
> gopher-http connectivity:

> block connections from 46.182.107.117 going to 70/tcp and
> http://gopher.meulie.net/ / http://gopherproxy.meulie.net/ stays out of
> your Gopher server.

> And absolutely no hard feelings from its maintainer, should you choose
> to do so!  :-)

Oh I can't do that really at this time. I try to follow the consensus
here and that consensus to date has been that I'm not with the program,
and being a bit of a pissy assed pariah if I do so :)

In principle, I have nothing but accolades for what you are doing. It's
just that I don't think it's the right way to get people to use gopher
resources, and further, only serves for further marginalize the
protocol, and has contributed in a big way to support for the protocol
to be dropped from browsers (Firefox just last year I think?).

The main point however, is that I'm opposed to using a file called
'robots.txt' on a gopher server. I'm not particular as to what that file
should be called other than that, however - perhaps, arachnid.txt would
suffice - but certainly, unequivocally, something that is specific to
gopher - *not* HTTP.

Kindest regards,


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Bradley D. Thornton
Manager Network Services
NorthTech Computer
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