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Old 04-02-2006, 05:31 AM  
KCat
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I think the sentiments MrLuvr is expressing are pretty common in the blogosphere. A lot of bloggers have an RSS feed soley for the purpose of allowing their subscribers to read the posts using Bloglines or other readers. They don't want their posts republished elsewhere & often don't understand (or care about) the SEO benefits of non-reciprocal links.

Example: thread on the WordPress support forums with a blogger trying to report an AutoBlogger Pro user for "stealing" her content via RSS

Every post in the site accused of stealing has a clearly labeled link back to the original author. He's not doing anything shady, yet she's being told to contact his hosting provider to try & get the site shut down!



I think it's important to get the bloggers to clearly label their intended use of RSS feeds. There are more than enough bloggers who want to see their RSS feeds syndicated & then we can avoid the "you're a thief - you're a whiner" argument entirely.
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