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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