Karl Dubost wrote: > - How one who has previously submitted a feed URL remove it from > the index? (Change of opinions) If you are the publisher of a feed and you don't want us to monitor your content, complain to us and we'll filter you out. Folk do this every once in a while. Send us an email using the contact information on our site. (Sorry I don't want to put an email address in a mailing list post... We get enough spam already.)
> - How someone who's not mastering the ping (built-in in the > service, the software) but doesn't want his/her feed being indexed by > the service. Providers of hosted blogging solutions or of stand-alone system should feel a responsibility to do a better job of educating their users as to the impact of configuration options (or the lack of options.) There are many blogging systems that don't support pings and others which normally provide pings but allow users to turn them off. Some systems, like LiveJournal even allow you to have a blog but mark it "private" so that only your friends can read it and pings aren't generated. What might not be happening as well as it could is the process by which service or software providers are educating their users. Services should work harder to educate their users. bob wyman