I'm writing a little application for my own use which will consume a publicly published RSS feed.
As far as I can tell, there's no subscribe/post mechanism in the protocol; I need to have my application HTTP-GET the RSS feed periodically.
If that's the case, I'd like to grab it every ten minutes or so, but I'm worried about being seen as an abuser. I'd certainly be concerned if I saw someone poking my server every ten minutes for weeks on end.
Is this a valid concern? Is there any general advice on what a "reasonable" refresh rate is? Do I even have my facts straight?
