Then someone should just grab the feeds and put them in. LR is meant to be
decentralized -- anyone can do it, and it doesn't require any action or
permission from LR (well maybe a little bit of help now since we're still in
early days).
- Dan
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:21, Pat Lockley
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> 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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