Apparently the "open source friendly" folks at Slashdot dind't think to wonder "hey, I wonder if there'll be some people with aggregators at OSCON this year?"
I opened up NetNewsWire, and found:
Your RSS reader is abusing the Slashdot server. You are requesting pages more often than our terms of service allow. Please see the FAQ link for more information, and if you email us, include your IP's srcid: 203104289e737f9d.
Morons.
Happens to me everytime I'm in a room with enough people with laptops - like at Starbucks or a conference or airport with WiFi.
You'd think they could figure that one out?
You still read /.?
Try here: http://alterslash.org/rss.xml
You don't get all of the /. chatter, but you get the news and I have never run into the abuse message.
Eh, what do you expect from people who haven't updated their website since 1998?
You are abusive. I think that's something you should address in therapy.