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This script can get you banned
Authored by: f8dy on Apr 30, '03 01:58:44PM

Please please please do not do this. This will download Slashdot's entire RSS feed whether it has changed or not, which means you are wasting their bandwidth for no good reason. Think it doesn't matter? Slashdot is hugely popular, and it matters a great deal. Please use a real newsreader to read headlines, like NetNewsWire, which supports HTTP conditional GET and will only download feeds if they have changed.

The problem is so bad, using a script like this can get you banned from Slashdot. See: http://slashdot.org/faq/accounts.shtml#ac1050



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