Not Clear on the Concept Dept.

Charlie Stross is in a high dudgeon:

Attention Livejournal users

Some time ago somebody set up an unauthorized Livejournal feed from my weblog.

This is annoying to me because I don't administer it and can't update it. So when I moved my blog, four weeks ago, the LJ feed broke. Now I've moved the DNS for my server over, the LJ feed is barfing up a months' worth of my articles and people are complaining to me.

If you use LJ to track my blog, stop it. Instead, you can grab an RSS feed from here.

If you created the LJ feed, please delete it. Thank you.

We now return to our usual scheduled program ...

Umm, Charlie? If you don't want people to syndicate your blog, don't hand them an RSS feed. It's like linking to a page: if you don't want outsiders to link to a Web page, don't put it up on the Web.

This is just about as dumb as saying "You can use Radio UserLand to read my blog, but not BlogLines."