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I got a mail from a polular technical forum

Dear *** User,

It has been observed (from our logs) that your account makes an unreasonable number of fetches from the arstechnica website. Perhaps you are using bloglines, which btw is very very inefficient at managing blog posts. We recommend you to bring down the fetches from our site, or we’ll have to deny access to your IP.

Regards

Admin
***

and in response to my reply [where i stated that ‘my IP’ servers as a proxy for thousands of students] …

Well, that doesn’t sound anything near to an explanation. Possibly, on your behalf, bloglines makes the huge number of fetches from us. Bloglines is anyway known for mishandling of blogs. Contrary to what the advertise, the inturn end up making our servers more loaded than otherwise.

Hope you understand.

Admin
***

I dont think so. I have checked access logs of my blog. Bloglines checks only once in an hour. I think that it will infact reduce the traffic from the server, as bloglines is serving hundreds of users from their server. Or in the worst case it will no way increase the traffic. I am observing queries for their site at proxy. I dont really see any heavy trafic at all. There is hardly any.

Can anyone explain to me what the Admin mean by ‘bloglines is known for mishandling of blogs’ ?? Or is it that they hate bloglines for stealing their traffic

I am now addicted to bloglines. It saves almost half of time in reading feeds as compared to my old client - thunderbird. Its real good.

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