[ILUG] Slashdot failure

James McCarthy mccarthyjames at gmail.com
Thu Nov 9 13:40:40 GMT 2006


I think it has to do with how often you refresh your feed, if the rate
is to high slashdot block you.
It's to help prevent a denial of service.

Change the rate at which your feed refresh

On 09/11/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Anyone having problems with RSS feed from SlashDot?
> (The feed location is <http://slashdot.org/index.rss>.)
> When I try to access it in Firefox I get the message
> "Live Bookmark feed failed to load".
>
> Actually, I've had a few similar messages from other RSS feeds recently,
> which seem to cure themselves after a while.
>
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