Webmaster Tools sees sub-domains as internal links

This is extremely helpful for our larger sites. While I've relied increasingly on SEOmoz's linkscape for backlink analysis, it's nice for Google to recognize the difference. Wonder what this looks like for all the people who didn't buy vanity domains for their Blogspot accounts? :-)

More than likely, this is to curb hub pages and diminish the sentiment that link profiles for sub domains are treated as separate entities (I've never seen any real evidence of this, but that hasn't stopped the peanut gallery from suggesting it). But all in all, it does help see the trees from the forest for our sites with half a billion subdomains.