[gopher] Throttling gopher daemon is desirable

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sun Jun 23 03:41:01 UTC 2013


> > I'd guess some people are in places where the internet link is charged
> > by the amount of data transferred, instead of a flatrate.
> 
> True, but why would anyone run a server on a metered link? That's totally
> insane because you give others the permission to increase the bill...

Or it could also be people with a fixed uplink. Traffic shaping could be
helpful, but it could also be overkill.

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