I'm not sure this is a good idea as it also deters non-spammers from Yeah, that's the downside, but rms already explicitly asked us to do rel=nofollow for the gnu mirrors. It doesn't seem like that big an issue that savannah must be different here?
Personally, I also am unconvinced about how useful nofollow really is, but I don't see that it hurts anything (unlike Tor ...). Real people who mirror gnu already have high pageranks precisely because they are real sites. My experience in talking to (real) mirror admins is that they don't care about such things at all, they're just trying to help us because we requested it. karl
