LinLog

Apparently Akregator was acting up this afternoon. Either that, or the Slashdot guys are just as bad at coding as they are at story editing. That probably isn't possible, though.

I've had Kontact up and running for a few days now, and when I checked it a couple of minutes ago, I had four entries from Slashdot saying I'd been banned for hammering their server. Basically, they ban anyone who requests their RSS feed more than once every 30 minutes. I have no problem with that policy - it's a hight-traffic site and bandwidth is expensive - but I was a bit confused because Akregator is configured to request all feeds once every 60 minutes. So what gives?

I guess it's not a big deal. I turned off updating on the Slashdot feed so they should automatically un-ban me after 72 hours. Plus every article worth reading gets run on OSNews too, so it's not like I'm going to miss anything.