Updated recommendations regarding TOFU & TLS

On Thu Mar 4, 2021 at 5:52 PM EST, Bradley D. Thornton wrote:
> That was a fair enough request. Yes, the party to which you refer is an
> account that I filtered to /dev/null a long time ago. My bad. It
> appeared as if you were referring to me.

No worries.

> You'll note I also cc'd you on this. It's my practice to set my MUAs to
> only "reply list", since that's where I'm conversing. I can't promise
> anything in the future, but I'll try, and a friendly reminder with each
> of your posts will help :)

Thank you.

Reply all is a safe bet on all mailing lists, I recommend using it by
default to make sure you include everyone in the thread.

> On another note, I would appreciate it if you would take a moment to
> ensure that your webproxy agent stays off my lawn at *.vger.cloud. I
> have no qualms about other types of agents, I just personally believe
> that people should use native Gemini and Gopher protocol clients (which
> includes browser plugins such as dillo-gemini, qute-gemini, OverbiteNX,
> and SSH kiosks) to browse Gemini and Gopher space.

My proxy's IP address is 173.195.146.137, I leave the rest up to you.
It's my proxy's responsibility to dutifully perform the requests the
user asks of it, and it's your responsibility to curtail whatever kinds
of traffic you don't want to access your server. I do not support
discrimination against user agents, because that's discrimination
against users.*

For what it's worth, my proxy only serves my domain and serves external
content only if the user follows links from my domain to a third party.
It's not useful as a general purpose web portal to geminispace.


  against /badly behaved/ user agents is a different matter than
  discrimination against well-behaved user agents on the basis that
  you don't like them.

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