Friday, October 9, 2009

[Avid-L2] Re: The L2 has a blog? who knew

So if you pull RSS for something, get it from the L2 blog.

http://avidl2.blogspot.com

JDS

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "jeffsengpiehl" <jeffsengpiehl@...> wrote:
>
> The Yahoo RSS feed's performance for the L2 has been dismal at best. Late posts, only about 20% message arrival rates, it's horrid. The direct mail feed goes to the Avid L2 blog, then the blog RSS feeds out to the L2 Facebook page.
>
> extra servers involved, but the message relay looks pretty damn perfect!
>
> JDS
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/8/09 10:33 PM, "jeffsengpiehl" <jeffsengpiehl@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://avidl2.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > > It's the L2, in blog format, with a few extras to boot. Great for those who
> > > use RSS for reading, the blogspot RSS is the Full L2, better then other RSS
> > > methods we use.
> > >
> > > blog fun, blog fun.
> > >
> >
> > Interesting idea, but I don¹t see the advantage. Yahoo offers an RSS feed of
> > Avid-L2 here:
> >
> > http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/Avid-L2/messages
> >
> > Perhaps I¹m missing something...what does blogspot offer that the yahoo RSS
> > feed doesn¹t?
> >
> >
> > Also, I see one potential problem with the current implementation. Email
> > address of some posters, (at least some of those with their email address in
> > their sig, those who¹s posts generate a reply, perhaps others), become
> > exposed on the web. And thus, those folks may end up receiving even more
> > spam than they already do. Sure, we¹ve all agreed to expose our email
> > addresses here on the email list (and on the yahoo groups page and
> > archive...hence my use of gmail here), but those aren¹t as public and easily
> > harvestable as stuff on blogspot.
> >
> > Is there any way to keep email addresses off the blogspot re-posting of
> > Avid-L2?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> > --
> > Jim Feeley
> > POV Media
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>


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