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December 11, 2004
My Posts on Throttling
I posted three items over the last few weeks about RSS bandwidth use and my attempts to throttle it back. The first one, on Nov. 13, shows a chart of usage and how rapidly its grown. My second, on Nov. 20, shows my attempts to throttle usage through a script that quickly identified unpleasantly frequent aggregators. My third, on Dec. 7, shows that the throttling dropped bandwidth usage down to nearly 50 percent.
But as two Dans discuss--see earlier posts on this blog linking to their comments--my approach is probably restricting multiple users behind NAT and anonymous proxies. More rethink needed to strike a balance between appropriate throttling and losing subscribers.
Posted by Glennf at December 11, 2004 02:25 PM