Dare Obasanjo has provided the right answer to the silly RSS consumes too much bandwidth complaints from MSDN. Yes, the MSDN blogs were apparently set up pretty stupidly - especially their aggregator and server had no proper support for Conditional GET. If I got a euro every time a blog hoster handles this topic stupidly and incorrectly and then complains about the evil bandwidth, I'd have at least 5 euros by now. But I do find it telling that Microsoft is too incompetent to get it right, drowns in traffic and has to switch feeds from full feeds to title-only feeds. Somehow fitting - it's not the first technology that Microsoft has botched.