Re: Bandwidth concerns

[Duncan Wilcox <duncan@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Bearing in mind, however, that such operations would require dynamic 
> code
> running on the server.  A *great many*, if not the majority, of things 
> providing
> RSS run from static files.  That and the load caused by static files is
> significantly more predictable than dynamic scripts.

Sure. I was just thinking that server load wasn't as much a concern as 
bandwidth.

> As for large content feeds I'd rather see things go the route of static
> manifests linked to external full-content documents. [...]

Ah, this sounds like a pretty good solution. It would be great to see 
something like this integrated into and required by the atom spec.

Duncan