Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:24:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mx.freeshell.org ([192.94.73.21] helo=sdf.lonestar.org ident=root) by glockenspiel.complete.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EPmCk-0005iZ-Ob for gopher@complete.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:24:04 -0500 Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (IDENT:newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.1]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9CJNgFc005000 for <gopher@complete.org>; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:23:42 GMT Received: (from newmanbe@localhost) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.13.1/8.12.8/Submit) id j9CJNgu7016350 for gopher@complete.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:23:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:23:42 -0500 From: Benn Newman <newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org> To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: New Gopher Wayback Machine Bot Message-ID: <20051012192342.GA9832@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20051012180132.GA19083@complete.org> <20051012185141.GA21016@complete.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051012185141.GA21016@complete.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Spam-Status: No (score 0.9): AWL=0.861, FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.05 X-Virus-Scanned: by Exiscan on glockenspiel.complete.org at Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:24:04 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 1109 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-Id: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

I know that Veronica-2 obeys robots.txt. Does the bot have its own client name (or whatever it is that robots.txt calls it? I have content on my server that is easily replaceable (a mirror) and there is no reason to do a full text of it. Last time I updated [my not publically avaliable] JUGHEAD, the 'gophermap' file was already eight megabytes and I have added content since then.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:51:41PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:01:32PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > This bot is now running on my laptop and is spidering away. The IP that > > you see connections from will vary depending on where my laptop is at a > > given time ;-) > > Speaking of this, do we have any equivolent of robots.txt? Cameron, do > you have some sort of exclude list or anything? > > -- > John Goerzen > Author, Foundations of Python Network Programming > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593715 > >

-- Benn Newman newmanbe@sdf.lonestar.org | gopher://igneous-rock.homeunix.net

Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.