Hello,
Wasn't an argument over the threat of harvesting - more that if people
are happy then why not. A malicious harvester is just DOS in any other
form, and if the server can't take that then it's got bigger problems.
If the LR took RSS Feed as is, it'd get 35,000 UKOER items in about an
hour. Just seems a really quick win.
Pat
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Daniel Rehak <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We've been told that some folk have tried to harvest the entire contents
> from Connexions as frequently as every minute. Kathi is on the list and
> can provide more details
>
> We (LR) do have a harvest utility, and someone can set it up to harvest
> whatever, whenever. We (LR) aren't going to use it like that, but you else
> can. So if the target complains about server overload, they will complain
> to you.
>
> - Dan
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:43, Pat Lockley <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> From 1 brief convo at the plugfest, it seems the LR doesn't want to
>> poll your feeds as they are worried about slowing servers down with a
>> request.
>>
>> Xpert takes feeds once a day (and it never occurred to me to care
>> about your servers tbh).
>>
>> So the question :-
>>
>> Is anyone worried about a site harvesting their RSS feed once a day?
>>
>> Pat
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