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| | TeledyN: The End of RSS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | That's the intent, but the reality depends on many things, not the least of which is an assumption all these RSS readers are paying attention to the caching headers, and properly obeying the fine points of protocol... |
 | | RSS may have the potential to be a saver on bandwidth, but when you are getting hit once an hour or more by thousands of sites, 24,000 extra hits ads up, and it's all the worse when so many are using broken clients that ignore the caching rules. |
 | | If the worst offender really is all those Userland clients, and maybe this applies to the other RSS readerwares emerging in their wake, maybe these companies should be encouraged to proxy their client software through their own servers enroute to the RSS host site. |
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