[As I am writing this post as an email, I always am tempted to start writing something like "Dear Reader" :-) ]
When testing, something always can have unintentional results. In this case, I have (and still am) exploring Posterous, a service that some call light-blog or tumbl-blog. The most interesting feature is the possibility to send a post via email. Nothing unique about that function, Blogger, Wordpress and also Tumblr and Soup.io have it - as I guess have most blog-like publishing services.
What makes it special is the way Posterous handles attached files, the way you can fine-tune autoposting to other size by playing with email address, such as flickr+facebook@posterous.com, or #qompute@posterous.com, the way you can include tags for example by adding ((tags:qompute, 1moment)) in subject title line.
Enough about that, so what happened regarding my erroneously published posts on 1moment.org and qompute.net? To play around with posterous, I created a special blog for this purpose: creativeposting.posterous.com including it's cousins on Blogger and Wordpress, ie creativeposting.blogspot.com and creativeposting.wordpress.com.
I enabled creativeposting.posterous.com as a group blog. On the groups details I added the two external cousin blogs. As the group email address is post@creativeposting.posterous.com I assumed wrongly that the autoposting settings of my general Posterous account would be ignored. They were not, lesson learned.
I have deleted qompute from my general posterous autposts and moved it to the group settings of qompute.posterous.com. The addresses I am using for this are:
- #qompute@qompute.posterous.com (to forward the post to qompute.net)
- #creativeposting@posterous.com (for testing purposes, because I am not sure if I have to use the full group email address including the host name)
- post@posterous.com (to apologise to you for the various meaningless posts :-)
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