Last month, Cory posted an item about Glenn Fleishman's analysis of the impact of RSS aggregators on his blogs' bandwidth use. (Link to previous BoingBoing post). Now, Glenn updates us with this news:
I've run the latest statistics on RSS usage after adding a simple throttling program that uses a database to track the last access by an RSS aggregator (or anyone trying to retrieve a syndication file). One retrieval per file update is now the limit. I've seen my bandwidth use on RSS drop almost in half with no commensurate drop in actual users, and only a single note describing a problem in retrieving my feed (from a very old aggregator).
