Cook Computing

Ziv Caspi describes the issue of bandwidth being wasted when only one or two items change in an RSS feed which contains full content (I also mentioned this a few weeks ago). Since I switched to full content in my RSS feeds I've found that I tend to batch up items over the course of a day for publishing rather than publish them individually when I write them. This is not particularly rational because I now have more than enough bandwidth but it doesn't feel right that when I post an entry of only a few lines the subscribed aggregators will each download a large file, for example 33 KBytes for the index.rdf feed right now, rather than an RSS file of ~3 KBytes and the content of the new entry.