Re: [syndication] Re: Standard RSS location?

[burtonator <burton@relativity.yi.org>]

Stephen Tyler wrote:
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> But wait!  I'm getting several hundred hits per day from single RSS
> feeds (not counting on-demand end-user RSS grabs - just automated
> regular grabs).  On its own, that's fine, but if I register my billion
> RSS feeds, my server will be toast.

Yeah.  that would be a shame.  All the extra ad revenue and you might
actually have to buy more servers :).  That might take a day or so :)
 
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> Adding to the problem, it seems that very few RSS aggregators wait
> more than a couple of seconds between requests.  On the hour, every
> hour, they come and bang away at my server.  My content may only be
> updated weekly, but hourly they come in one big group.

Yes.  There have been complaints that this is RUDE.  Jetspeed will have
better support for being nice about this.. .WAY nice.  The point is that
other things like search engines can be rude too.  I would just say
return nothing if the same host connects to many times... IE punish them
:)
 
> And what about the structuring / hierarchy of RSS feeds.  OCS does not
> handle this at the moment.

It will in 0.5.  
 
> Now I'm not complaining.  It's just that the reason I am not
> publishing a list of all my RSS feeds (and I think I publish more of
> them than any other site on the net - not that that means very much -
> like I said it only took me an hour or two) is that I cannot currently
> trust the bulk RSS aggregators to behave in a sensible manner with
> such a list.

hm... maybe multicast RSS/OCS... humm. :)
 
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