> As Jim and others did, I selected Blogger because of the unlimited
> readers and spent considerable time over the past several months
> setting it up.  It is intended for use by members of a professional
> organization I belong to and can't be made public because it contains
> sensitive information that would be inappropriate for public viewing
> (one example is sharing recommendations regarding potential
> speakers...who's good, who's not good etc.).  I need it to be read by
> 150 members.  I understand that it may be necessary to limit private
> blogs to deal with the performance issues.  But could you please
> consider raising it to higher number so that it might still accomodate
> the majority of users of private blogs?

> Secondly, I've spent two days searching through the documentation,
> user forums and 3rd party books on Blogger to find out if I had just
> overlooked this limitation when setting it up, or if it was new, if
> there was a way to increase the size.  For a policy change as
> significant as this, it would be extremely appreciated if it could be
> documented somewhere or announced on the Blogger Buzz.  I'm sure it
> affects a lot of people.

> Thanks.

> On Feb 20, 10:02 am, Blogger Employee wrote:

> > Hey folks,

> > Yeah as of now there is now way around the 100 person limit on private
> > blogs :-(

> > The reason that the limit is in place now is because there were lots
> > of performance issues that arised as a blog amassed more than 100
> > readers. But this is good feedback and I will definitely pass along
> > your concerns to the rest of the team and we will see what we can do.

> > In the meantime, you could make your blog public (which would allow
> > infinite readers), and then enable a word verification for comments so
> > that spam would be deterred. Here's how to do this:

> >http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42520&topic=12456

> > Thanks for hanging in there,
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