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Steve and Jim tried to make the PGP stuff easy
- Dan
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:57, Pat Lockley
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Yeah, I'm thinking about doing it, but that means learning all the PGP
> stuff, and i thought it might be quicker if it didn't involve that :)
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Daniel Rehak <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > 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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> >> >
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