RSS bandwidth consumption becoming a real issue

I have posted about this before, now MSDN and other high traffic bloggers are tweaking their RSS to manage both the bandwidth consumption and the server load. RSS Comes with Bandwidth Price Tag. Typical solutions include banning overzealous news readers, truncating entries (to make the file smaller), or using header caching or the TTL spec. Of course, no-one is using any kind of standard. This particular article doesn’t mention another option which is RSS offloading. This is something that FeedBurner is doing. I like that approach. By outsourcing your RSS feed there are a million ways that the outsourcer can add value to your feed in addition to freeing up your server. I think even small bloggers should do this.