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by James Robertson.
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Ted Leung points to an RSS distribution scheme - the purpose being to ameliorate a presumed future bandwidth problem with RSS. I'm skeptical, because RSS really is no different than any other page fetched by Http - if sites like CNN, Drudge (etc) have solutions for their main page, then the truly popular RSS feeds will end up using these self same solutions. I'm skeptical of inventing something new when the problem has already been solved....