News----good, bad, ugly? You decide (was Re: [spec] comments on the proposed gemini spec revisions)

[Anna “CyberTailor”]

On 2021-10-20 19:39, Sean Conner wrote:
>   Oh, and one more thing---my Gemini site has been down for the past few
> days.  Why?  Mainly because I got tired of poorly written Gemini bots stuck
> in my redirection tests for *weeks!*  If the authors don't care that their
> bots are wasting time and resources on following endless redirects, then I
> don't care about outing these idiots.  These are the top 10 bots over the
> past four weeks:

This is disappointing. Gemini was meant for humans but got full of
stupid* bots (like everything on the net).

* disrespecting robots.txt, the protocol spec and common sense

Fail2ban or "44 slow down" can be used to stop them though.