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10 August 2005

Why can I read your email? and yours and yours and yours?

post by: danostuporstar at: 11:26 | 15 comments

I think you should thank your primary school teacher.

posted by Skrik 10 August | 11:30

So these people publish these feeds on purpose?

posted by danostuporstar 10 August | 11:31

That first one is great! "Honey, I voted for you. Wondered if I should vote more than once but then that'd be cheating."

posted by agropyron 10 August | 11:49

Bloglines provides two ways you can share your subscriptions with others. First, to enable sharing, you must make sure that your profile allows sharing. Once sharing is enabled, all of your subscriptions and folders become public.

Hmmm. Might have been smarter to make feeds with a username/password private by default.

posted by Armitage Shanks 10 August | 11:50

I think they are supposed to be private:

There Are No Subscribers To This Feed With Public Profiles

posted by 김치 10 August | 11:56

admin! please … me!

posted by quonsar 10 August | 12:03

That was strange. I clicked on one and it took me to my own gmail a/c.

"Bloglines provides two ways you can share your subscriptions with others. First, to enable sharing, you must make sure that your profile allows sharing. Once sharing is enabled, all of your subscriptions and folders become public. When viewing a subscription, you can click the 'Edit' link to toggle individual folders and subscriptions private. A private folder or subscription will not show up in either a Blogroll or in the /blog view, as described below."

Silly people haven't turned off the sharing in their profile it would seem. I can't realllly see the logic for having email feed to bloglines -- maybe for an RSS dedicated feeder program.

posted by peacay 10 August | 12:09

oh...missed that armitage shanks.

posted by peacay 10 August | 12:11

That was strange. I clicked on one and it took me to my own gmail a/c.

not strange in the slightest. the links are all to http://mail.google.com/mail. why do you think its strange?

posted by quonsar 10 August | 12:39

More along the lines of: I wasn't paying attention. Brain drift.

posted by peacay 10 August | 12:46

They're not to gmail, they're to bloglines. Did I miss something?

posted by goatdog 10 August | 16:04

Gmail provides an Atom feed for your inbox. People are adding the feed to their bloglines account, presumably without realizing that they've made all their feeds public.

posted by Armitage Shanks 10 August | 16:11

hey! This is FUN! :)

posted by dabitch 10 August | 18:28

Except that only boring people share their e-mail. Where are all the people with actual lives and why can't I read their email?

posted by dg 10 August | 19:02

The first one now has a message from Gmail support saying they've detected "abnormal usage" of the account.

I'm kinda impressed.

posted by stilicho 12 August | 14:50

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