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Originally Posted by Marauder
I'm game... : o )
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AFAICT, the throttles work - you just need to tweak them to deal with the banning issue. The results, however, included a lot of junk. While I read Slashdot, I would miss the ability to respond and to display limited subsets of commentary if I read it via the recipe/EPUB. If you are going to work on it, you probably ought to clean it up after you decide how to adjust the throttles.
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That does not seem to be the case. The IP from my primary ISP was banned some time last year (it's been long enough that I forget exactly when) and despite numerous pleas to several different email addresses associated with Slashdot and OSDN (their parent company), I have received absolute silence.
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Interesting. I've looked at each case of Slashdot banning I've seen reported here. I've tested several versions of the Slashdot recipe to decide if throttling helps. I've been banned once during those tests (unthrottled - one ban out of 5-6 unthrottled tests), but quickly changed my dynamic IP and tested some more. Someone out there must still be suffering from that old IP ban. You would think that most users to Slashdot are not on static IPs, so banning by IP for long periods wouldn't help much.