[kcartlidge]

Personally I'm trying to keep it tied down to an issue of responsibilities.

The abuser of resources should stop abusing. It isn't the fault of the victims and they shouldn't each individually need to address it. Stop the issue at source for everyone by stopping being anti-social/parasitical on the use of resources through excessive polling. I think that's the extent of my own argument here.

[tptacek]

It's not a great argument? If Github and Gitlab are fine with the polling, and the polling has even marginal benefits for Go users, why should we care how they handle Github and Gitlab? It sure looks like nobody on the Go project knew that sr.ht would care about these module clones, and when they found out, they gave DeVault the option of stopping them. I'm still not clear what the issue is.

If they knew DeVault's host wasn't going to be able to handle repeated module clones, a priori, then doing it anyways would be a problem. It doesn't look like anyone expected this to be a problem. It turned out it was, and there's a fix.