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                         Comment today, gone tomorrow

A while ago Spring [1] setup a syndicated feed for The Boston Diaries [2] at
Livejournal [3]. So if you have a LiveJournal account you can add my
blatherings to your friend's page [4]. Hey, it's what my feed [5] is for,
right?

But I've noticed, through some experimentation, that LiveJournal [6] does not
keep the entries around for all of eternity (or as long as it's in service),
but will delete them as soon as the entries fall out of the feed [7] file.
This, I can't fault them for, since why should they keep copies of this? And
since they get rid of the entries as soon as they are no longer in the feed,
any comments posted to the LiveJournal syndication are deleted along with the
entry itself from LiveJournal [8].

So, you make a comment to my feed at LiveJournal [9], it won't surivive
forever.

Which explains why I sometimes quote comments made there here [10].

Just letting you guys know …

[1] http://www.springdew.com/
[2] https://boston.conman.org/
[3] http://www.livejournal.com/
[4] http://www.livejournal.com/users/spc476/friends/
[5] https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss
[6] http://www.livejournal.com/
[7] https://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss
[8] http://www.livejournal.com/
[9] http://www.livejournal.com/users/bostondiaries/
[10] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/08/23.1

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