my experience is similar to mark pascal's, as far as providing rss feeds goes. they consume a large part of the bandwidth for this site. but unlike mark, i have no problems blocking bozos who grab the feeds more than once an hour. today it was somebody grabbing the msnbc feed every five minutes. you can easily block them from a .htaccess file, mark. just add 'deny from 141.149.14.106' (using the appropriate ip address).