three small patches for current git head

[K. "pestophagous" Heller]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> Hello and welcome. I think you are the first person who told me that they
> "lurked without subscribing". That's a new approach :-)
>

Yep :)  your httpd access logs probably show activity that looks like
i was trying to hit every page of the archive to slowly download a
static backup page by page, traversing the archive slowly but
methodically.