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       gopherproxy.sh down again due to bot abuse
       February 21st, 2026
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       I took the gopher proxy down again because the AI fuckwits are hitting
       the server so hard... I estimate it will take about 1.5 weeks to come up
       with some new/interesting mitigations. 
       
       
       Also endofthelinebbs.com is banned from all communication with this site
       permanently. The hostmaster there is patently stupid. First choice at
       any trouble was to email the abuse inbox and THEN look for some contact
       method. I do not have time to deal with that drama... I'd also like to
       point out that they do not have caps.txt or .well-known/security.txt
       there so... Complaining about my contact information being hard to find
       while theirs is hard to find (too?) is just ridiculous.
       
       I'll turn the comment section for this post on in a few days, probably,
       in the meantime comments can be sent on the previous post in which I was
       complaining about the AI bots. (which BTW are now over 99% of the web
       traffic here. fun.)
       (edit: nope, not enabling comments on this one)
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