> distribution of RSS items more efficient RSS is a 500kb static text file which is updated usually at most every hours. The whole file fits in server RAM and

> distribution of RSS items more efficient RSS is a 500kb static text file which is updated usually at most every hours. The whole file fits in server RAM and can already be served to thousands of people from cache with minimal CPU usage, or from Content Delivery Networks. A "full page of items" is easily compressed with gzip algorithms. Surely, the Internet isn't congested because of RSS...