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MaxM - 10:27 am on Jul 28, 2004 (gmt 0)


One example from my logs. Both have around 1300-1500 hits to my RSS feed this month. (I have a small non-commercial site)

User A consumed 344 KB
User B consumed 11,4 MB

User A's RSS client is checking if the feed has been updated 4 times per hour 24/7. Nothing wrong with that really. IP points to a normal cable internet user.

User B's RSS client downloads the whole feed 6 times per hour almost 24/7. IP points to some "data mining" company. Hmmm...

Guess who got the boot? (IP banned).

Other thing I don't like are RSS clients with no identifications ("GET /rss.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 8224 "-" "-"). Thinking of banning them too.


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