[gopher] salsa.net hung connections

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Ray Lopez <rl at well.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Cameron.   I've been unable to participate in any discussions on
> the mail list and it would be good to be able to do so.
>
> I agree with you that our proxies should NOT be indexable by web
> spiders.  It's just too much work, and goes against the basic philosophy
> of gopher vs. web.
>
> I've implemented changes on my server to hopefully alleviate some of the
> traffic and will be working with James Mills to make the necessary
> changes to his gopherproxy software.
>
> RL

Ray - thanks for the prompt response.  And +1 on not wanting web spiders
crawling gopherspace via the proxies.  I don't think there is much I could
do on my end; maybe traffic throttling or temporarily dropping connections
when it looks like spider activity.  I don't have much faith in crawlers
minding the robots.txt entries.

Jeff