Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

OK, we implemented a new policy in December, and announced it on the
Syndication list.

If a channel is inactive after seven days, we drop it from the list, but we
keep reading it every day, and if it changes, it goes back on the list and
we resume hourly scans.

So the workaround is to update every six days to be sure you don't fall off
our radar.

We're doing a major overhaul of all our syndication software, so the only
choices are to wait or work around the current detour.

The reason we limited it is because the list was getting huge and much of
the stuff was inactive.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ambit's Webmaster" <webmaster@ambitweb.com>
To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: RE: Channel 3475 - Please advise


> Oh... sorry, Dave :)
>
> I ignored the question because it the page is based on a Perl script that
is
> automatic.  Every seven days, I update a plain-text database  that covers
10
> days and the script does the rest.  In addiiton ot the Useland channel,
that
> database is used by several scripts ot create a Netscape channel, a WAP
> site, a Netscape 6 sidebar, and two pages of full and highlight listings
for
> my Web site.  I have been updating it unfailingly for several years now.
>
> So, yes, I have updated it recently.
>
> I.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:18 a
> To: webmaster@ambitweb.com
> Subject: Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise
>
> But but, you didn't answer my question.. Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ambit's Webmaster" <webmaster@ambitweb.com>
> To: "Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 8:17 AM
> Subject: RE: Channel 3475 - Please advise
>
>
> > Dave,
> >
> > Your Web site states it doesn't exist when I look for it at
> > http://my.userland.com/viewChannel$3475.  I used to routinely "check in"
> > using that URL, using a bookmark, to see how many "views" there were.
> > Sometime in the last month or so, it started to give me the "A channel
> with
> > the ID 3475 doesn't exist on this server." Message instead.
> >
> > I use a very similar script as a Netscape channel and it has been
working,
> > uninterrupted, for about the same period of time (since last July.)
> >
> > I noticed, in search engines, that a number of sites with news displays
> > picked up my Userland channel.  There were 500+ or 700+ "views" (I can't
> > recall which right now) listed in the short 6-7 month period when I last
> > looked. Seemed to be more than most other channels up and running for
> > similar period of time.  The channel seemed to help promote awareness of
> the
> > related page on my Web site.  That's why I am so interested in keeping
it
> > going as it was.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Ira
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Winer [mailto:dave@userland.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:08 a
> > To: webmaster@ambitweb.com
> > Subject: Re: Channel 3475 - Please advise
> >
> > Have you updated it recently? Dave
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ambit's Webmaster" <webmaster@ambitweb.com>
> > To: <portals@userland.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 4:09 AM
> > Subject: Channel 3475 - Please advise
> >
> >
> > > Please advise why my channel, Ambit's Sci-Fi TV Highlights, is no
longer
> > > listed as a channel after 6 months of operating through your services.
> > >
> > > This is my second e-mail inquiry.
> > >
> > > Ira Brickman
> > >
> > >
> >
>