RSS to kill a website near you!
Posted by Michael Dale on Tue, 20 Jul 2004 9:07 PM"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? ;)
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 at 5:24 PM, ucosty wrote:
nope. I don't even check my set-up news summaries.
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 at 12:27 PM, Stuart wrote:
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).
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 at 2:35 PM, Maximilian Blue wrote:
Yeah, I read this item on my iPod... and yes it did originate from the rss news feeder in question... :-)
how exciting...
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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...