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.
 
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.

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--Ben
 
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.
 
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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