I was looking at the numbers my bloghost was providing, and I saw some strange things. I'm trying to find out how this works from my bloghost, but I'm also putting this out there, in case someone may have a clue -

Blogware (this weblog tool) is a platform that tracks RSS feeds, one of which is Newsgator - also now including FeedDemon - both are ways of viewings RSS posts.

In looking at the stats that Blogware is providing, I'm getting some awfully insane numbers:

For the month of September, so far, I show 22400 Newsgator/FeedDemon hits.  And for September 20th, as an example, I had over 800 hits from Newsgator alone.

If anyone uses Newsgator - do you know how it is used?  Do you know in what possible scenario one gets "automatic" or script-based hits via a Newsgator or FeedDemon site?  The numbers I am getting for September total are something like 36,000 xml requests (4 times the amount of html requests), and this is probably 80 to 90 percent too large. 

Who and what utilizes automated newgator/feedDemon scripts?

Thanks in advance.