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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 06:31pm on 09/09/2005
I'm really sad to move to friends only because a lot of my friends (Ion, Lindsey, my family) don't have LJ accounts and still read the blog. Hrmph. There has to be some clever technological solution.

yrs--
--Ben

P.S. A short story every week? I am totally envious of your writing skill.

P.P.S. I keep forgetting that you lived in Japan.

P.P.P.S. Good luck with the polaris. Sounds cool.
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posted by (anonymous) at 07:13pm on 09/09/2005
P.S. A short story every week? I am totally envious of your writing skill.

A piece of writing to be sent out every week having to do with my stay in Japan. Ended up with 52 pieces. It was the most discipline I have ever showed towards anything, I think. It also really drove home that I am happiest when I am writing regularly.

Anyway, thanks.
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 07:33pm on 09/09/2005
My stance on this is, "If you don't want the whole Internet to know it, don't post it publicly on the Internet."

The only clever technological solution that could possibly be secure is for your non-LJing friends to choose a username and password for reading you blog - that is, for them to get free accounts.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:41pm on 09/09/2005
I was thinking, maybe, about something that automatically e-mailled a me-selection list of folks when I updated my journal.

yrs--
--Ben
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 07:46pm on 09/09/2005
But without accounts or some other form of authentication, LJ has no way to know whether someone is a person that you approved to see the post or not.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:48pm on 09/09/2005
journal to friends only.

Mailing list for people who dislike livejournal, or are confused by technology, or simply find the account inaccessible for other reasons, like work firewalls.

That actually sounds like a pretty good plan... Except, of course, I'd prefer to have it automated. I guess you can't have everything.

yrs--
--Ben
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posted by [identity profile] relevance.livejournal.com at 08:10pm on 09/09/2005
Yeah, that's not bad at all - a good feature request for the LJ team. Adding an email address to a custom filter (or to your friends list) and having it send mail to them on your behalf when you update. There would be potential for abuse if LJ automated that, though - people could spam purchased "friends lists" using their servers.
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posted by [identity profile] unrequitedthai.livejournal.com at 08:50pm on 09/09/2005
It is possible that there's software that does this. Investigate ecto; it seems to have a lot of features.
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