Iguana - 8:28 pm on Sep 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

Sorry, WebFusion, I've just re-read your post and thought I'd better give you some real info rather than my reminiscences.

I have a few thousand rss feeds and they are being hit heavily by:
YahooSeeker-Testing/v3.9 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; [search.yahoo.com...]
YahooFeedSeeker/1.0 (compatible; Mozilla 4.0; MSIE 5.5; [my.yahoo.com...]

I've not seen the particular crawler you mention but I'm pretty sure that rss helps with getting pages into Yahoo. However, that's for a site that is unpenalised. So, allow yourself a little hope but don't order the Mercedes until you see Slurp gobbling up everything in sight (or should I say everything in site).