Getting 503 "Temporary problem - please try again later" error when reading contacts

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create a basic Contact Query
2. Issue the contact query
3. Read the events from the query 

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect A list of contacts are returned. Instead, starting about three weeks 
ago around when Google deployed changes to the Gmail interface, the contact 
service started kicking back 503 errors almost randomly through out the day.  

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by dlevins...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2010 at 4:32

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503 errors are actually returned when you exceeded your quota. That basically 
means that you are sending too many requests in a fixed period of time.
This applies to all GData APIs and there's a good explanation at:

http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/gdata_provisioning_api_v2.0_developers_
protocol.html#Limits

Original comment by ccherub...@google.com on 8 Nov 2010 at 4:15

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