Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
One would hope that the aggregator in question does something like what we've been doing with Bloglines since the beginning. The Bloglines crawler includes the subscriber count in the user-agent string we send with every request for a given feed. That makes it really easy for content providers to accurately track the number of subscribers they have on Bloglines (something you can't do with desktop aggregators).If I am an owner of the content that is syndicated in this way, my statistics will look rather skewed -- I can only see one hit every so often, and the fact that my content is viewed somewhere else by multiple viewers is completely hidden from me. Sounds mighty unfair, doesn't it? Almost like bootlegging.
Hope this helps. Mark -- Mark Fletcher Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com