Gemini Archiving and WARC

I agree 100% with Sean's post (http://boston.conman.org/2019/10/29.2) -- 
the act of posting something to a gemini *is* publishing, so it's out 
there -- toothpaste-tube-style. That being said, I think any archiver or 
spider should also respect *robots.txt* files -- though them being opt-in 
vs. opt-out is kind of moot, since spiders gonna spider, you know? It's 
the very nature of the Internet to communicate.

However, I thought Dr. Otto brought up a vv good point as well:

> Regardless, the issues being brought up here seem to circle around
> content control and archival ethics and less about the protocol. 

Inasmuch as gemini is a technical specification/machine protocol, I think 
there's nothing to say about it vis-a-vis archiving. Socially, though, we 
have norms -- which are good to nail down in a nascent community.

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