Hello,
I have been reading the "recent changes" and "new articles" RSS-feeds through My Yahoo. Now I've written a small Python program to fetch and parse these feeds, but it fails most of the time with a message about "intermittent server problem" and warning that my user-agent may be blocked. Since the feeds are available through my browser, I conclude that I have been blocked. (My program sends the user-agent, 'WikiWalker' and provides my email address).
I have also published RSS feeds, and I know that RSS readers and aggregation sites are among the most aggressive 'attackers' - frequently ignoring robots.txt, cache-busting, and requesting pages at outrageous speeds. But my WikiWalker is really benign, so how can I get un-blocked?
TIA,
Ken