Gnews2Rss closing down

For the past few months, Apache has been dying on me occasionally for no 
obvious reason. I couldn't find out why so all I could really do was 
restart it. Today I caught it in the process and discovered that it had 
a very large number of sessions running Gnews2Rss[1] (the famous Google 
news to RSS scraper) that were sitting waiting to write data out.

What seems to be happening is that many RSS aggregators do a feed 
collection at the top of the hour. People using gnews2rss were hitting 
my server, which was then kicking off a page request to Google. These 
were getting stacked up and taking too long to time out. Apache was then 
complaining about too many sessions.

So sadly I'm retiring Gnews2rss as it looks like I can no longer support 
the growing success. For the next few days all it will return is a 
single item each day repeating this message. After a week or so I'll 
switch that to a 410 Gone http message for an RSS request but leave the 
html display.

I'll leave the source code up there. And as I still use a local copy 
myself I'll be trying to keep the source code up to date and working.

As always, please hassle Google on mailto:[email protected] and 
ask them to produce RSS/Atom themselves.

[1]http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php

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