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Monday 20 May

RSS to kill a website near you!

Posted by mwdmeyer on Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:07:20 EST

"The popularity of RSS feeds is testing the web infrastructure of at least one publisher, which likens the impact of newsreader traffic to a denial of service (DoS) attack."

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/07/19/rss_traffic_burdens_publishers_servers.html

Did you get this news item via my RSS feed? ;)

This posted was edited: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:57:05 EST
Below are the comments for this news item

Why yes, as a matter of fact I did. I was pressing refresh on my newsfeeder incessantly, with a view to subjecting your website to an RSS Denial of Service.

It's spooky how you guessed what I was doing…

1: Comment by J. - Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:35:41 EST


nope. I don't even check my set-up news summaries.

2: Comment by ucosty - Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:24:49 EST


What J said! I always seem to anticipate news on your site Dale, it's like a hobby… a really sad late night hobby when no one else is around (except crusty who anonymously stalks around sites without me knowing).

3: Comment by S. - Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:27:43 EST


Yeah, I read this item on my iPod… and yes it did originate from the rss news feeder in question… :-)
how exciting…

4: Comment by Max - Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:35:29 EST


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