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On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 03:28:19PM -0500, Benn Newman wrote: > John Goerzen said: > > This is a long-standing need and should address the memory leaking > > that some have noticed with PyGopherd, which was caused by clients -- > > oftem spambots -- that simply die in the middle of a conversation. > Spam bots?

Bots that are accessing the server over HTTP trying to find email addresses to spam.

They generally seem to be quite ill-behaved. I am suspicious that people are writing malware to do the downloads for these bots.

The new timeout code seems to be highly effective in combating them.

-- John