Comments on: Polling Doesn’t Have to be Painful http://rasterweb.net/raster/2005/11/01/polling-doesnt-have-to-be-painful/ RasterWeb! has been publishing insights and such since 1997... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:13:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pete Prodoehl http://rasterweb.net/raster/2005/11/01/polling-doesnt-have-to-be-painful/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Pete Prodoehl Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:58:05 +0000 http://rasterweb.net/raster/?p=938#comment-629 Another nice idea sir! I often use the polling frequency as a throttle on those feeds that are too active. They may produce 50 new items per day (or hour) but I really don't need that much from them... Another nice idea sir! I often use the polling frequency as a throttle on those feeds that are too active. They may produce 50 new items per day (or hour) but I really don’t need that much from them…

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://rasterweb.net/raster/2005/11/01/polling-doesnt-have-to-be-painful/comment-page-1/#comment-628 l.m.orchard Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:22:57 +0000 http://rasterweb.net/raster/?p=938#comment-628 Why set your polling frequency manually? Mine are auto-tweaked based on whether or not the last poll came up with new entries, using this plugin for my FeedSpool: http://decafbad.com/trac/browser/trunk/feedspool/plugins/poll_schedule_vary.py The algorithm might be useful, anyway. Why set your polling frequency manually? Mine are auto-tweaked based on whether or not the last poll came up with new entries, using this plugin for my FeedSpool:

http://decafbad.com/trac/browser/trunk/feedspool/plugins/poll_schedule_vary.py

The algorithm might be useful, anyway.

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