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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?

"Already, [RSS] aggregators have swamped some sites, slowing Web servers and eating up expensive bandwidth, according to bloggers and other Web publishers. The end may be near, unless something changes soon, said Gary Lawrence Murphy, whose Linux blog, TeledyN, has been overloaded," says Wired News.

"Once all the covered wagons show up and an RSS reader is folded into Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Outlook, we're doomed," Murphy said.

Comment: RSS is currently integrated into Longhorn, the next version of Windows NT, but that won't be out until 2006 or later.

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