When
I was reading my aggregator the last day of eTech, I found these
posts in my page of new articles.  I started to wonder “How the
heck is my aggregator
going crazy?  What is going on here?  I’m not doing this!”
… and then I realized what was up.  At eTech, all of the
attendees were on the wireless network behind a NAT.  To Slashdot,
it must have looked like a lot of requests for their RSS feed from the
same address.  Slashdot thought this was all traffic coming from a
single user … and so they pitched the error messages out.

It’s funny to see yet another way in which technology confuses
technology.  I’m not sure how this was solved … someone must
have contacted Slashdot to let them know.  To Slashdot, they only
saw the one “identity” and assumed that it was a single user hammering
their servers.  Yet another case where some sort of solution could
be developed to encode identity into the RSS request.

Funny …