Gopher Proxy Blacklisting 2
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This is just a quick entry to say thanks to those who have contacted
me (emails) or written about [1] their thoughts on blacklisting
misbehaving gopher proxies [2].  One thing I hadn't appreciated was
that some of you are using these proxies to get around annoying
firewalls.  Of course I don't want to contribute to this annoyance!

So I wanted to point out that FloodGap's proxy [2] is not on my
blacklist, as it didn't appear in any of the google searches I did for
my phlog content.

Looking at http://gopher.floodgap.com/robots.txt reveals why:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /gopher/gw
    Disallow: /gopher/gw.lite
    Disallow: /gopher/gw?*
    Disallow: /gopher/gw.lite?*
    
It seems Cameron has politely disallowed robots from crawling the
gopher content his proxy serves.  Thank you!

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[1]: gopher://ascraeus.org/0/phlog/029.txt
[2]: gopher://thelambdalab.xyz/0/phlog/2019-08-29-Gopher-Proxy-Blacklisting.txt
[3]: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/
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