Question for all you blogging gurus
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I just received a message from a reader:
"Hey I just wanted to let you know I really enjoy your blog but I've been getting lots of duplicate copies of your posts in my RSS reader (Newsgator), I don't know if this is because you repeatedly modify your posts? And now I've gotten another copy of all your posts back to Nov 28 so I have to find them all to mark them as read. So I unsubscribed (But I should still receive your posts from javablogs.com I guess if it is still in operation :)."
I had no idea this would happen. Doh! Some technologist I am LOL.
So to my question: is there a way to not have it behave this way? Or should I just stop editing my blog? Hehehe. I continually update it to correct spelling mistakes and typos in code examples, etc. So that seems like a rather crappy solution. Or maybe I should just move to a wiki with an RSS feed? Any idea?
I'd hate to think how many others are frustrated with seeing the same stuff appearing over and over again.
And you all rock! I hope this works but the solution seems very simple:
"It's a stupid feature of newsgator that is on by default. Whenever a blog entry is modifed it's sent to the user as a new blog entry. It is easily turned off in the options, but I believe the user needs to configure this for each rss feed."
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It's a stupid feature of newsgator that is on by default. Whenever a blog entry is modifed it's sent to the user as a new blog entry. It is easily turned off in the options, but I believe the user needs to configure this for each rss feed.
But what does it matter, modify your blog all you want. If I recevied an comment I would tell that sob to....
Posted by: Pawn | December 11, 2003 08:04 PM
Thank you very much! I can safely update my blog now..phew!
Posted by: Simon Harris | December 11, 2003 08:21 PM
Hey I'm the sob, just wanted to say thanks Pawn for that information (stupid newsgator) and by all means blog all you want Simon.
Posted by: Paul Caplan | December 12, 2003 08:04 AM