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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch |
| Subject | Re: google usenet archives - up or down? |
| Date | 2026-09-28 05:53 +0000 |
| Organization | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| Message-ID | <2026Sep28.075333@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| References | <20260927182357.00005629@yahoo.com> <119c1aa$1okot$1@dont-email.me> |
Joseph Seigh <jseigh_es00@xemaps.com> writes: >On 9/27/26 11:23 AM, Michael S wrote: >> Today when I am trying to access Google Usenet archives most of the >> time I get "429 Too Many Requests". >> Is it just me or outage is widespread? >> The link: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch Lots of bots are now requesting content from all URLs they can find, again and again, and have done so for two or three years. A Usenet archive with its many URLs tends to be hit hard. Likewise for web interfaces to code repositories. We have turned off cvsweb access more than a year ago because of this, yet we still have had 804524 accesses to cvsweb pages since 2026-09-01, 29% of our web accesses. For a well-connected organization like Google, it's unusual that they feel the strain of these web scrapers so much that they do not service the request, but apparently it does happen; this may also point to the lack of importance that this service has for Google and its revenue stream. >It appears to be widespread. I've noticed it for a few weeks now. >None of my bookmarked usenet links work anymore. In particular, al.howardknight.net is now offline, after being online, but unusable (probably from scraper overload) during summer. - anton -- 'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.' Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>
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google usenet archives - up or down? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-27 18:23 +0300
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? Joseph Seigh <jseigh_es00@xemaps.com> - 2026-09-27 17:20 -0400
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-09-28 05:53 +0000
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2026-09-28 10:32 +0200
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-09-28 15:18 -0400
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-10-07 06:34 +0000
Relentless DDoS out there (was: google usenet archives - up or down?) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-10-07 16:02 -0400
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-09-30 03:38 +0000
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-09-30 12:53 +0300
Re: google usenet archives - up or down? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2026-10-08 14:33 -0700
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