Is That Your Final Answer?
Tim Bray: the increase in the total fetch count is for the moment unexplained
Theory: Perhaps some are subscribed to tbray.org which is returning a 302 a.k.a. a temporary redirect. This means that consumers will continue to fetch the original address, and then follow the redirect. Each time.
More likely, it is due to consumers not properly interpreting a 301 status code. Radio UserLand used to have this problem, but that particular tool has long since been fixed.
Apparently, others haven’t. Despite having coded a permanent redirect over three months ago, I still received 69,142 requests last week for feeds in one of several RSS formats.
I would think that three months is more than sufficient for those with a clue to catch on, so accordingly, this is the last entry that such readers will see.