[gopher] salsa.net hung connections

[Ray Lopez]

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

On 08/15/2017 10:29 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> For some reason I've never been allowed to post to this discussion list
>> so I hope someone sees this.
> 
> Hopefully the change in list administration is making its way through so
> this can be rectified.
> 
>> It looks like I've got web crawlers accessing my gopher proxy at
>> ratthing.com:7780.  Ratthing.com and salsa.net are the same server.
>>
>> I'm in the process of blocking them so hopefully this problem will be
>> alleviated soon.
> 
> I have a similar problem with the Floodgap proxy. I've stuck META tags up
> and there are lots of crawler blocks, and sometimes a few still leak
> through.
> 
> I don't think proxies should be indexable by Web spiders (except that they
> exist), but my opinion is not universally shared, and a couple proxy
> operators have vocally disagreed in the past.
>