From: gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org Date: Sat Dec 5 23:25:15 2009 Subject: Re: [gopher] New Gopher Proxy On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 12:16:09PM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > > In a google search for "gopher proxy" I happened to stumble across this: > > > http://gopher-proxy.stephenmorley.org/. > > > > This is great. > > Now if we can just get some of the http-based gopher sites to start > > listing these proxies, they might get picked up by the search engines. > > ... as long as the search engines don't start indexing them *through* the > proxies. I've had services get DOSed by bot traffic, and I've had to block > proxies that did (I'm not naming names; that was handled under the table). It seems to me that this would be a good thing, and that responsibility for limiting bots on sensitive sites would be the domain of the site operator, not the proxy operator. --Brian -- Don't have gopher? Visit the world's first wiki-based gopher proxy! http://www.pongonova.org/gopherwiki _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Thread start (DIR) [gopher] New Gopher Proxy (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] New Gopher Proxy (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] New Gopher Proxy