RSS Traffic Burdens Publisher's Servers. The popularity of RSS feeds is testing the web infrastructure of at least one publishing company, which likens the impact of newsreader traffic to a denial of service attack. [Netcraft]

RSS file polling is currently using 44.8% of the bandwidth for my little weblog, I can only imagine what happens on a major news site. What does this mean? Too many rss readers downloading the whole file and not only the tiny http header? Maybe RSS readers should by default not read news at the top of the hour?

Is anybody working on a solution?