Article on one of the negatives for site owners and the web as a whole in the emerging popularity of RSS. As RSS feeds can be requested automatically at set intervals by newsreaders this can lead to a large escalation in bandwidth usage for a site. There are aspects of the protocol which, if followed by newsreaders, minimise the load on servers. These measures are not implemented in every news reader. The other alternative discussed is to minimise the amount of information sent in the RSS feed. That is, just sending the headlines or first sentence without sending all content.

Wired News: Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?

Originally cited in MarketingVox