On Fri, 20 May 2005 20:56:51 -0400 (EDT), David A. Desrosiers wrote > > > This is something I've wanted for awhile.. doesn't exist yet. > > > I could have used that a while back when /. banned me for plucking > > too fast. > > I actually talked to the Slashdot maintainers about that > offline in fact... interesting automated throttling they have in > place to stop that kind of behavior (I'm going to be doing something > similar on the Plucker site soon, we're getting slammed quite hard > by Plucker and Sunrise users lately, a few thousand hits per-hour > total from those mal-behaved spiders). > > However... one thing you could try is setting up Plucker to > talk through Privoxy and Tor, which adds its own delay/latency into > the mix, as well as anonymizing (as close as anonymous can be on the > live Internet). It should do what you want. > > I've got all outbound requests from here over port 80 and 443 > going over a transparent Squid + Privoxy + Tor proxy, so all clients > inside the lan, configured or otherwise, are being anonymized > without anyone knowing at all.
I suppose that one way would be to mirror the website with wget (which can be throttled) then pluckerizing what was downloaded, or making plucker use a local proxy on a non-standard port and throttling inbound on that port on that machine with dummynet at the (openbsd, in my case) router -- John - lists (at) reiteration ! net _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
