Blogspot Frustration!

May 18, 2007 4:08 PM

Blogspot is driving me crazy! I need help from seasoned vets.

I am working on a friends blogpage.

I am trying to signup to blogspot groups for some tech questions. His confirmed e-mail address is rejected. So is mine. What gives?

The questions that I wanted to ask are these:

How do you enter a large block of e-mail addresses to be notified of new posts?. What I see only allows one address at a time.

Is there a lag time for changes once they are confirmed?. I noticed that no notifications were sent out with a recent post after I added the addresses. I also noticed that there was a 4-5 day lag on some changes I made in the comment section. Is this common.

posted by goalyeehah to computers & internet (6 comments total)

How do you enter a large block of e-mail addresses to be notified of new posts?

Almost certainly you cannot do so. If that mechanism were present, Blogspot would become a tool for spammers. (Even more than it is now, that is.)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 4:20 PM on May 18, 2007

The workaround to notify multiple email addresses of a new post is to have everyone who wants to be notified join something like a Yahoo Group and then put the Yahoo Group's posting email in the Blogger preferences. Or turn on your RSS feed and have your readers subscribe to that.

Edits to your Blogspot blog should appear within a few minutes after you hit "Post". Occasionally, there's some random slowdown but the significant ones are usually noted in Blogger Status (which, perversely, goes down when Blogger goes down).

Email notifications are not sent out for updated/edited posts.
posted by jamaro at 4:29 PM on May 18, 2007

I use a Google Group for this very thing. The Blogger setting emails directly to the Google Group all new posts and comments, and the Google Group sends out all emails from that address to everyone on the list.

Easy.
posted by SlyBevel at 6:51 PM on May 18, 2007

Oh, and from the time I post to the time I get the email (with my post), is usually about 90 seconds.

It might be so fast for me because it goes from Blogger to Google Groups to Gmail, which are all Google properties.
posted by SlyBevel at 6:55 PM on May 18, 2007

Sorry for the triple post, but one more thing...

When setting up your Google Group, don't try to add more than 20 email addresses or so per day. Then wait 24 hours and add another 20, and again until you're done.

I used to administer a group that had about 135 active readers who wanted email, but if you try to add more than 20 (or 25?) at a time, Google flags the request. This makes it so that a human at Google must approve the request, and that takes frickin' forever.

Just so you know.
posted by SlyBevel at 7:00 PM on May 18, 2007

You can also set the blog up to email posts to your own address, and then use that subject line (e.g. [Blog Title]) to forward to one or more other addresses. This will have the side effect of sending all comments to those people as well, which may or may not be what you (or the group) want.

Comments have shown up in my inbox almost instantaneously. A 4-5 day lag, and such a long time to carry out any updates, would make me wonder if the site were under investigation for TOS violations.
posted by Tuwa at 9:30 PM on May 18, 2007