Icerocket have banned us. We don't have many users using feeds from IceRocket, but if your digests are not updating, this is why. If you want to contact them for resolution, the IP address they have banned is 75.126.158.42. We will be looking into e-mailing them also.
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NEWS: Icerocket feeds no longer work (they do now)
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Posted 17 years ago #
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If you desperately need an immediate resolution, put their feeds through FeedBurner, and or attempt use the Coral cache by appending .nyud.net:8090 to the hostname.
Posted 17 years ago # -
According to the IceRocket robots.txt policy, you cannot use their feeds in an automated fashion. Sorry to our users who were using them, but thems their rules :( If you wish to complain, you need to contact them and explain what you are doing.
As an aside... curiously all their search feeds are blocked under their robots.txt policy which, in theory, means NO automated client can access them (including regular feed readers, Google Reader, etc..) so I can't see why they even bother to offer RSS feeds :)
Posted 17 years ago # -
I've sent IceRocket an e-mail as surely this policy is a mistake regarding feeds.. not seen anyone block feed access via robots.txt before ;-)
Posted 17 years ago # -
Sorry for boring you all to tears, but I've spoken with Blake at IceRocket and we'll be whitelisted tomorrow morning.
In my research I have discovered RSS readers, though automated, are not strictly "bots", so IceRocket's policy is not strictly incorrect. I am very curious on this issue though because robots.txt was designed long before tools like RSS readers were envisioned.. perhaps it's time for a new standard :)
Posted 17 years ago # -
All is now resolved and we are whitelisted with IceRocket. Hurrah!
Posted 17 years ago #
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