Re: non-solutions for blogs.msdn.com: (was RSS consumes too much bandwidth)

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Mark Pilgrim <pilgrim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 6) Accept the fact that consolidating the full
> content of 1000
> regularly updated sites into a single file of any
> format is going to
> consume a lot of bandwidth.

+1 
 
> > One thing that would be very helpful here is if we
> could get some hard
> > data from MSDN on request rates, types of
> requests, user agents, and the
> > like.
> 
> Why?  Is the problem that there are a large number
> of aggregators that
> do not respect the headers/compression that MSDN is
> already using
> (correctly)?
> 
> It would be the ultimate irony if Microsoft were
> brought to its knees
> by client applications that did not adhere to
> standards.

I've pinged the folks involved and they'll see what
they can do in getting me some traffic trends. My
suspicion is that the problem is that the site is
simply too popular and updates too frequently. It's
not like people complain that HTTP is broken every
time Slashdot links to a site and brings a web server
to its knees. 

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