From: "Gopher-Project" <gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org> Date: Sun Sep 15 21:42:34 2013 Subject: Re: [gopher] Joining in: I'm the maintainer/host of Gopher Proxy On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:47:46AM -0700, Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > 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?). From what I remember, Mozilla was *quite* invested into dropping Gopher support. No matter what arguments or comments people had against, they were not even complaining about having to maintain the code (well, they *did* complain, but once Cameron stepped forward and offered to maintain it, it became quite obvious that it wasn't the real reason). I doubt not having a way to access gopher though HTTP would have stopped them. > > 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. > = > I think Evert is proposing this for the *web* side of the proxy to retard > indexing. > = > That said, Veronica-2 already uses a robots.txt file so gopherholes can t= ell > it to keep out of certain selectors, so this has precedent. Also, I'd say that "robots.txt" sounds like something that's robots-specific, not HTTP-specific. If robots.txt is already used for HTTP, I wonder if the gopherspace shouldn't just use the same filename. HTTP and gopher are somewhat similar with respect to spidering, I'd say. From a spider point of view, maybe it'd be simpler to have to worry with just one filename? -- = Nuno Silva (aka njsg) Radiotieteen ja -tekniikan laitos Aalto-yliopiston s=E4hk=F6tekniikan korkeakoulu _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Joining in: I'm the maintainer/host of Gopher Proxy (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Joining in: I'm the maintainer/host of Gopher Proxy