Yes indeedy. My one-update-per-month feed gets pulled over 10 times per hour by Podbean for example:

https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-99.html#202...

10 times per hour? Yikes.

I'm a small enough deal that I can call out specific readers at the top of a new post. A couple weeks ago I put up a post that started with the aside "hey one of you has a Turkish IP and you're pulling the whole feed every 10 minutes, please stop doing that."

	▲	DamonHD 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think that I probably average < 1 listener by any sensible metric! B^> (The podcast where I capture primarily audio material such as voice or sonfification that might as well also be presented in this alternative channel form...) I'd be interested to listen to your podcast if you were to ping me its URL via one of the contact methods in my bio...