Defending Full Length Feeds

Steve Maine puts the case for full length feeds much more eloquently then I ever could.  All I can say is that I'm not terribly fond of the new format.  If as Scoble says it's a bandwidth issue, are there not any alternatives?  Maybe we could syndicate out the supply of full length feeds.  They could be made available to a few specific IP addresses on the understanding that the owner mirror the feed.  There would be exposure in it for the mirror and choice for the users.  Mirrors could choose to differentiate themselves by the theme they use on their main page or how they organize the feeds.  Some popular sites already use this solution for their downloads.  Surely RSS feeds were designed to be syndicated!