... so we [Adrian and I] got barred from Freeserve Unlimited the other day, thanks to being in the 1% of users whose usage is considered 'abnormal' and are...
Dan Hon
dyh21@...
Oct 8, 2000 9:28 pm
201
I'm attempting to set up BT Surf Time at the mo. Not having a huge amount of luck. The bastard "customer care" number is constantly on hold. rob. ... From: Dan...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 9, 2000 10:30 am
202
I'm interested in this. I have worked out that Surftime will save me money now, but I'm not too happy about changing ISPs (I have to as UUnet Pipex are not on...
Nico Morgan
nmorgan@...
Oct 9, 2000 11:53 am
203
anybody noticed that Blogger's getting comments posting? http://www.evhead.com/comments.asp?post=1059294 I'm not sure if I'm excited or scared witless by this...
Darren Shrubsole
darren@...
Oct 12, 2000 9:32 am
204
This is almost annoying... I wrote my own software before I was aware that blogger existed. And now it looks like blogger has overtaken my own functionality. ...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 10:16 am
205
Hmm. Bloat ahoy! This feature will be *so* overused, & imo only a small % of people will employ it to pleasing effect. Couldn't find any info on it but the ...
jen@...
Oct 12, 2000 11:48 am
206
... But that's the story of the web full stop. The good stuff rise to the surface. Wonder if blogger will end up incorporating slashdot style user moderation? ...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 12:19 pm
207
... Hello, Darwin! ;) Yes, & in weblogging terms, "rising to the surface" = having the world & its brother linking to you, apparently. Which is what Blogger ...
jen@...
Oct 12, 2000 12:54 pm
208
... linked = readers = alive notlinked = no readers = dead BTW: Joel at http://www.rathergood.com/, got linked from the popbitch newsletter today. I've been...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:05 pm
209
... Huh? Who cares about links? If you are logging for links then you have missed the point! I don't care if anyone reads my stuff or not - the fact there are...
Lindsay.Marshall@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:07 pm
210
Isn't that what little indie bands used to say in the nme? "We make music for ourselves, and if anybody else likes it then it's a bonus" Like everything in...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:18 pm
211
... Totally different circumstances. Indie bands almost all have pretentions to be popstars and it is conventional to deny this. My weblog acts a diary for me...
Lindsay.Marshall@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:21 pm
212
And just like the media, if people don't like what you write, you can carry on or give up and nobody really notices. If only a small number of people...
Nico Morgan
nmorgan@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:24 pm
213
... I missed this. What happened? rob....
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:34 pm
214
She got mentioned on G2 last week, thousands logged on to read about her life, only to find that she hadn't written anything for days (just started in Oxford -...
Nico Morgan
nmorgan@...
Oct 12, 2000 1:37 pm
215
As we're on the subject of link-slutting. 1. Make sure you have "friendly error messages" turned off in IE. 2. Generate a 404 on my site...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 2:04 pm
216
... I had that going for a while [1], but then Pyra changed something and it broke. Handy though when I only had a dialup connection; perhaps I'll fix it. The ...
Matt Webb
matt@...
Oct 12, 2000 2:26 pm
217
yeah, but moderation's only a problem if you're actually getting a lot of unruly comments. doesn't David Brake's blog (using groksoup) have a discussion forum...
Dave Green
DGreen@...
Oct 12, 2000 2:37 pm
218
Sounds good. Sounds like blogger needs an publically documentated gateway, and then you'd be away. A nice little content intergration module, where you could...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 12, 2000 2:39 pm
219
... Picture it: kottke.org (megnut, evhead etc) with an unmoderated comments feature that includes a link to poster's site. Yikes. Granted, the majority of ...
jen@...
Oct 12, 2000 3:22 pm
220
Anyone know if theres a way to update using one of these New Fangled Wap phones? I just bought one, and despite being Slow, Bulky and all round Faffy, a good...
Sarah Clarke
starpiekat@...
Oct 12, 2000 5:29 pm
221
hey there, i have a wap interface for updating my online journal. (and also icq and email interfaces). but i don't use blogger. i'm sure it couldn't be too...
chris@...
Oct 13, 2000 9:40 am
222
... That's the CMS I've always been interested in. Recently I was fiddling with Free-Conversant, which automatically provides you with an email interface with...
Giles Turnbull
giles@...
Oct 13, 2000 11:28 am
223
Still a security issue I'd have thought. It's very very easy to send an email from a fake address. And also, for example, your outgoing mail server is often...
Rob Manuel
rob@...
Oct 13, 2000 12:08 pm
224
*nod*, a specific address is quite a nice quick solution. or a majordomo-like mechanism for including a secret squirrel password in the mail itself. though i'd...
chris@...
Oct 13, 2000 12:17 pm
225
chris wrote: the other approach, of course, would be to pgp encrypt your entries ... Would that not necessitate an automated unencrypt mechanism at the web ...
Nico Morgan
nmorgan@...
Oct 13, 2000 12:21 pm
226
... -- yup. but assuming you have some level of control over the server, it needn't be that tricky. i have such a system setup so i can send pgp encrypted...
chris@...
Oct 13, 2000 12:26 pm
227
... I, for one would be very interested as the Nazis at work have only allowed web access to half a dozen people (i.e. Senior Management) ... Well exactly - I...
Nico Morgan
nmorgan@...
Oct 13, 2000 12:33 pm
228
... Sorry. I meant the e-mail interface will improve things. Having personally tried to write e-mail using Wap, I can see it driving people mad...!...
Nico Morgan
nmorgan@...
Oct 13, 2000 12:38 pm
229
... And there's bound to be many other people in a similar situation. For me, the appeal lies in being able to add content to the web from anywhere. In theory...
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