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RSS math

The End of RSS

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.

I stopped using an RSS reader a while ago, and now just have a bunch of bookmarks. I think it's crazy that we use software that checks a site automatically when you're not even actively looking to read anything right then. Eventually, I'll get around to finishing my software that lets me keep track of site changes (which will respect E-Tags, etc.), and will only check when I hit the "check" button

After reading Gary's section on an "RSS network", I was reminded of something I read a while ago, that RSS was usenet reinvented, and done poorly.

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