Ok, we've seen them all over the place, clogging both blogs and aggregators - the ever so nice "Temporary Post Used For Style Detection" post which Windows Live Writer uses to fetch style information.
While I'm not nearly as angst ridden about this as Jeff Atwood, it's annoying that you get one of these posts for every system you setup Windows Live Writer on. So, I had one a few months back from home, one a little later from my notebook, and one yesterday from my workstation. Fun.
In a bigger sense, I have to wonder about these posts - as Jeff pointed out, a quick google search now shows 24,800 hits for "Temporary Post Used For Style Detection".
While it may not be a "design feature" of the software, it does make it possible to track the spread of Live Writer. Granted that in time people will delete the posts, but if they are left up long enough for Google to index them, then they will show up in the search.
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