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"Opt out of me DoSing" you is not legit behavior -- especially when the victim has raised it with you multiple times, suggested fixes, and you have then blocked them from communicating in your issue tracker.

That's some really entitled thinking on the part of the Go team at Google, and it's sad to see people stanning for them.

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They should have them add a file to their web service at a path of "/i_want_to_live.txt" to indicate not to DoS the server.

If an amount of traffic that nobody else even notices brings you to your knees, you're doing something wrong. Go could be far more efficient but pointing at this and calling it a DDoS is silly.

I called it a DoS, not a DDoS.

Technically it'd be a DDoS, but however distributed it is makes no difference to what we're talking about here. If you could respond to substance, it'd be appreciated.

You are correct, it was more a complaint about resource usage and costs, as opposed to a breakage of the src.ht service.

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