MusicBrainz API/Rate Limiting
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This is the future home of all rate limiting info.
- Explain rate limiting and why we do it.
- Explain ip, global and per UA blocking.
- Explain why doing things at certain times of day are not smart
- Explain our current blocking and give a schedule for when we move to throttling/blocking.
- Mention that we can change the numbers at any time to protect the operation of the site.
- Mention what a user/author can do about it and mention that our libs now support UA setting.