Naive question about implementing RSS

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I have a naive question about RSS feeds.

I have a series of timed events which appear on my site and that I make available as an RSS feed for other applications to import.

Who is typically responsible for truncating this feed? Over the next year, I can see my feed having thousands of items. Should the URL mysite.com/rss always return all items? And leave it to the readers to just show the most recent? Or is it more customary that I only return, say, the top 50? Expecting the readers to cache older items? (And, if so, is there a convention for readers to ask the server for the "next page")?

What is the typical behaviour of something like FriendFeed when it pulls in an RSS stream?

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