[Python-Dev] Re: channews.rdf

[Skip Montanaro]

    Thomas> 222150 -
    Thomas> 11676 http://radiodiscuss.userland.com/myUserLandOnTheDesktop
    Thomas>  551 http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator
    Thomas>    3 http://www.xmltree.com/dir/viewResource.html?urlID=25170
    Thomas>    1 http://www.python.org/~thomas/wwwstats.new/usage_200109.html#TOPURLS

    Thomas> The topmost one is 'no referrer' and are probably all bookmarks
    Thomas> and 'channels' and stuff.

My guess is that almost nobody has channews.rdf bookmarked since it's not
intended for human consumption.  The large no-referrer count indicates there
are indeed lots of servers grabbing the rdf file and using it to update news
items on their own websites.  My guess is that many of these "channel
servers" probably detect that channews.rdf has not been updated recently, so
they will back off on their check frequency until they notice it changing
again.

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