Steve C, I can totally understand you wanting to cut off the air supply of all those scam and spam sites that steal content to make money. I've had issues with that for years at RWW, railing against them at various points in the past. In the end tho I just figured it wasn't worth all the stress and I just ignore that 'ecosystem' of content stealers. One idea for you to consider: at end of each RWW post there is a note (via a Feedburner feedflare) that the content originates from RWW. It won't stop the stealers, but does mean your content is always accompanied with that note about where it originates. I am surprised to hear you say tho that Google penalised you for others stealing your content. That should definitely not happen and my understanding was that Google can identify the original source of content, so there is no penalty for the content creator. Has anyone else seen that happen?? - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Yep. If someone wants to steal your content, partial feeds isn't going to stop them. Grabbing the full text is a trivial programming task that is hardly a barrier if they really want to use your content. - J Wynia