Comments on: upcoming: AIRWeb 2006 http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2006/07/23/upcoming-airweb-2006/ Now with less async io Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:02:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Paul http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2006/07/23/upcoming-airweb-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Paul Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:13:59 +0000 #comment-104 In general yes, we don't care about the Bloglines side of it -- but the same Bloglines data that we use to display for feed reader users is used by the Ask/Bloglines Blog Search Engine -- so if our backend is clogged with spam, our search engine could also be clogged with spam, in theory. In general yes, we don’t care about the Bloglines side of it — but the same Bloglines data that we use to display for feed reader users is used by the Ask/Bloglines Blog Search Engine — so if our backend is clogged with spam, our search engine could also be clogged with spam, in theory.

]]> By: Ian Holsman http://journal.paul.querna.org/articles/2006/07/23/upcoming-airweb-2006/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Ian Holsman Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:16:33 +0000 #comment-103 I'm confused. and probably don't know bloglines well enough. but do you care if a bot subscribes itself to read spam feeds? all that would happen is that bloglines would fill up it's database with spam, but that wouldn't matter to any of your readers as they wouldn't read it. or are you thinking of a mass of zombies subscribing and making their spam blogs 'popular' and appearing on that section of your page? I’m confused.
and probably don’t know bloglines well enough.

but do you care if a bot subscribes itself to read spam feeds?

all that would happen is that bloglines would fill up it’s database with spam, but that wouldn’t matter to any of your readers as they wouldn’t read it.

or are you thinking of a mass of zombies subscribing and making their spam blogs ‘popular’ and appearing on that section of your page?

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