Someone with Harvard's eecs group learned how to download the rome client today and, oh joy, ran it against my site. Again, and again. Still running as far as I can tell. It's attempted to fetch feeds off the site slightly over 700 times since mid-afternoon. Most of the requests are being redirected, using 301's, to feedburner.com, but it's still annoying. If you get a 301 redirect from a web server, it means GO AWAY, find the document over here. It doesn't mean Hey, why don't you check back here in, oh, ten seconds.

So, just because I'm a jerk about these things, the Rome user agent joins the list of user agents blocked from the site.