I'm going to chime in somewhere between Jacob and Roger. With the bandwidth saving features I mentioned earlier, I'd say 30 mins to an hour should be sufficient in almost every case. Of course, now we're just stating opinions, but that's mine. For what it's worth...
On 4/19/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Neil: Polling every fifteen minutes is an enormous waste of > > CPU and bandwidth... for both you and the source sites. For > > example, if you're aggregating individual blogs, once every > > 24 hours will cover the vast majority just fine. > > I disagree. RSS was originally built as a solution to provide near > real-time updates on a site. Fullasagoog polls every 15 minutes, not > sure how often MXNA does it. RSS load is a common problem for website > admins, but I don't ever hear people saying "I need to stop my visitors > from hitting my site so often", but rather "I need to find a way to deal > with the load." I know that was a problem for SlashDot when they first > released RSS for their site. But again, they didn't try to limit the > traffic but rather dealt with the load. If I were using an RSS reader > (like the squirrel), and it didn't tell me about an update for 24 hours, > I'd find a different reader. > > > -------------- > > This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential > and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any > reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission > in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in > its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. A1. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238196 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
