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Don Park links to Scoble explaining a problem at MSDN:

RSS is broken, is what happened. It's not scalable when 10s of thousands of people start subscribing to thousands of separate RSS feeds and start pulling down those feeds every few minutes (default aggregator behavior is to pull down a feed every hour).

Bandwidth usage was growing faster than MSDN's ability to pay for, or keep up with, the bandwidth. Terrabytes of bandwidth were being used up by RSS.

So here's my set of questions:

• Do the MSDN feeds support conditional-get?
• Do the MSDN feeds use mod-gzip?

If the answer to either one is no, then the problem isn't RSS - it's with Microsoft. So which is it?