Re: [syndication] Accounting for aggregated views

[Dimitri Glazkov <dimitri.glazkov@gmail.com>]

Interesting way of addressing the issue -- That's good to know that
you guys do that. How common of a practice is this? What other
solutions are out there?

I am thinking along the lines of madskills' PingBack interface: a
similar type of spec that brings the stats back to the syndicator in a
more organized fashion: hits, IPs, time -- something that would let
the owner of the content to track the usage pattern better. A
"StatBack", if you will.

:DG<

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:24:12 -0700, Mark Fletcher <markf@wingedpig.com> wrote:
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> 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).
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Mark
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> Mark Fletcher
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