This is...not good

[lierdumoa]

Bloglines

For an in-depth explanation of what Bloglines is/does, see here.

I sent the web service the following message:

I noticed that there is a feed for my livejournal (lierdumoa) on this website. I ask that any of my journal entries you have archived here be removed immediately and that none of my journal entries be archived here in the future.

Let me explain. As of now I am mostly comfortable with my journal being publicly available. However, if there should ever come a time when I am uncomfortable with my journal being publicly available, livejournal.com gives me the option to lock or delete my journal. I don't like the idea of my posts being archived en masse on a website outside of my livejournal where I am unable to lock or delete the content.

Yes, it's true, since my journal is public anyone could re-archive it. However, this was unlikely to happen because people, in general, are lazy. Automated services, unlike people, are not lazy. The possibility of so many of my posts being re-archived without my permission was slim to none until you created an automated service for it.

When I searched for my LJ name I found 49 of my journal entries posted between Sept. 8 and Dec. 13 2004, as well as 20 of my latest journal entries when I looked at the "preview" of my LJ feed.

If I check back in three days and these entries are still visible when I put my LJ name in your search engine, I will send you a repeat of this message, asking you once more to delete my posts from your database.

If in a week from now my posts are still showing up when I put my LJ name in your search engine, I will lock my LJ to prevent any more of my posts from being archived here.

I sent livejournal the following message:

A friend pointed me to bloglines.com, an automated service for providing news and blog feeds. I would not have a problem with this if they were only linking back to my entries, but it would seem the service is actually re-archiving my public journal entries on their own database. If I were to lock my journal or delete it my entries would still be archived on their database and I wouldn't be able to touch them.

Please tell me you are doing something to prevent this. A number of my journal entries are already posted there. I have contacted them and asked them to take my entries down. Now I am asking you to take steps to insure this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future.

ETA: The feed was disabled. Thank God for that.

Comments

[winter]

FYI, Bloglines seem to comply with such requests. At least they did when lannamichaels asked them :)

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

That's good news.

[xerne.livejournal.com]

Now I am asking you to take steps to insure this kind of thing doesn't happen in the future.

Admittedly, I don't know how bloglines works, but I'm not really sure how LJ could prevent people/sites from accessing and archiving public entries.

Maybe they could have an option for your LJ not to generate an RSS feed?

[lierdumoa.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm aware that they can't stop this from happening entirely. I would like that they be more vigilant about it, though.

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

That's been suggested, to have an opt-out for paid users for RSS feeds, so if more people continue to suggest it maybe they'll get cracking on that.

[tinyblondeone.livejournal.com]

Um. Huh. I'm not sure how I feel about this.:-?

[permetaform]

oh yay! I'm glad that worked out...