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Greg Reinacker (NewsGator author) has an interesting discussion on his site - should an aggregator download full content (even if the feed does not contain full content) for offline viewing? That's an interesting question. It would be simple to support such a thing in BottomFeeder, but - as Greg and others bring up on his site - that's going against the wishes of the content provider and starting to act more "robot" like. I think if I added that to BottomFeeder, I'd have to make sure that I respected robots.txt when doing so. It's an interesting crossing point for aggregators. Thoughts?
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