I have seen a ton of people using their service. Plus, I have never run across a website like WizardRSS.com that actually lets you get the full feed from any website on the Internet.

Although for our readers’ sakes we’ve always preferred full feeds, the constant waste of staff time in tracking down ISPs and issuing DMCA notifications makes partial feeds much less of a hassle.

At the moment we’re offering a full feed because that’s what Amazon needs for Kindle, but if we have another splog outbreak, we’ll have to figure out if we can make a hidden RSS feed for Amazon and go back to partial feeds.

If Google Reader would support password protected feeds, that would help, for a while at least, until sploggers start to manually search for passwords.

As a reader and an editor who does research in Google Reader, I’m not bothered by partial feeds if the posts are tightly written with a top graf that tells you what the gist of the post is. We write this way anyway, because we’re in Google News, and our ranking depends on a clear, explicit, keyword-filled first paragraph. With a clear, non-clever, non-cryptic top paragraph, the reader can judge if the click-through is worth it, and isn’t pissed off by clicking through to something he isn’t interested in.