[gopher] New Gopher Proxy

[Brian Koontz]

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

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