[shepard]

I did not see a forum for Google Reader, so here is the question.

I notice that Reader downloads posts from blogs even days after those posts were deleted from the blog. I understand that with the reader you can never delete an entry once it is downloaded. (Don't like that limitation). But, even if I create a totally new reader account on a new computer, when I access a feed from certain sites, I get old, deleted posts along with the more recent valid ones. If I visit the blog directly, the old deleted posts are not there.

Anyone know why this happens? Does Google access an old cache to get feeds? If so, this might explain why these old deleted blog posts keep downloading. However, if that was true, how would Google Reader get new posts? Maybe the feed download form a site is only updated by Reader if there is a new post?

Thanks!