Dear Étienne Mollier,
Aha, a logical response. Thank you for shedding some light on this for me. That is probably the case. My access could perhaps be misinterpreted as an attack. Maybe I misunderstand the concept of a mirror, but I do not wish to maintain a server which allows the public to download Debian repositories. I'll look into it, in any case. If I find it is possible to simply download the entire collection, without having to host a mirror, I may very well go that route.
If I continue the scraping route, would adding wait time in my loop between downloads make my repeated access less of a problem? I would like to let it run until it is finished. It is tedious to restart my scrape periodically.
Thanks,
John