I've tried being cynical and needlessly offensive. But nothing is changing. Please use useful and proper URIs.
I'm on a train. I'm reading your blog in my newsreader (Google Reader with Gears), and I run across an interesting blog post that you've written. So I decide I want to blog it. I right click on the title and choose 'Copy Link Location'. I paste it into my editor only to find it's "feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yourblog/~3/1234567890/12345.php". Helpful. I'm not linking to that - it's not the proper URI. It's like a fricking TinyURL.
My reaction when I come across a URI like this is to put the article on my back-burner stack - I'll look into it when I'm ready, but not until then.
What should you do if you want to track your RSS reader traffic? Well, make it an argument on your existing URIs. Just put "?source=rss" or something similar. That way, when I click through from my reader, your server can check it's GET variables for source=rss to see if I've arrived that way. And I can easily see what the original URI is in my reader and quickly link to it.
In the next version of HTML, there are also plans for a 'ping' attribute - here you can point to a URI which is 'pinged' when someone clicks on a link. This is a natural evolution of this principle.
