Site is down

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:01 -0800, Dave S wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:50 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Mercurial site is down ATM.
> > http://isup.me/mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download
> 
> 
> 
> Being mobile at the time, I didn't check then.  But for the record, looks
> fine 36 hours later   :-)

We have a recurring problem of Chinese web spiders ignoring robots.txt
and bogging down the site by hitting the wiki 20000 times in a day. I'm
working on automating the process of blocking them.

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