I am once again the victim of overzealous RSS readers. Especially one called "RSS Popper", which from what I can gather is a plug-in for Outlook. I have no idea how (or even if) it can be configured, but from what I can guess from my logs, it defaults to refresh the RSS feeds every one minute and a half. Which is far too often, especially considering the capacity of my server. Apparently there are only a few people subscribed to my RSS feed using that reader, but when their Outlook is running, my poor old webserver gets noticeably loaded.
I am tempted to ban this user-agent from accessing my RSS feeds, but not immediately and without notice though. So if you read this through RSS Popper, please decrease your refresh rate to something reasonable. One refresh every day should be plenty enough. Thanks.
Update (2006-02-25): There, it's done. The ban is as restricted as I could make it, but it does affect all users of RSS Popper in aorleans-*.abo.wanadoo.fr, as well as one particular 195.33.x.y address, apparently in Germany.
