Currently there are 30 episodes on the feed. I often receive
requests to make more shows available in iTunes.
I see that other prodcasts have up 100 episodes on their feeds. I
would like to increase the number.
About 1500 odd subscribers aren't using iTunes for our podcast feed,
but the Feedburner email subscription service.
My fear is that if I bump up from 30 to 100 episodes on the feed, our
email subscribers will get hit with 70 emails. I've noticed this
happen before when I've increased the feed number. The old episodes
coming onto the feed get emailed out.
I would hate to flood the email subscribers' in boxes, and I'm sure
they would unsubscribe in droves if I did.
Normally if you suddenly added n items to your feed, no matter their
actual publication dates, our email service would correctly determine
those are all "new" to it (unless they had all previously appeared in
the feed before *while the email subscription service itself was
active*, and therefore FeedBurner knew about them). I don't know if it
would be possible to deactivate the email service, update your source
feed to have n new items in it, and *then* reactivate email without
having a bunch of items sent out as a new email post. Let me find out.
> Currently there are 30 episodes on the feed. I often receive
> requests to make more shows available in iTunes.
> I see that other prodcasts have up 100 episodes on their feeds. I
> would like to increase the number.
> About 1500 odd subscribers aren't using iTunes for our podcast feed,
> but the Feedburner email subscription service.
> My fear is that if I bump up from 30 to 100 episodes on the feed, our
> email subscribers will get hit with 70 emails. I've noticed this
> happen before when I've increased the feed number. The old episodes
> coming onto the feed get emailed out.
> I would hate to flood the email subscribers' in boxes, and I'm sure
> they would unsubscribe in droves if I did.
> Normally if you suddenly added n items to your feed, no matter their
> actual publication dates, our email service would correctly determine
> those are all "new" to it (unless they had all previously appeared in
> the feed before *while the email subscription service itself was
> active*, and therefore FeedBurner knew about them). I don't know if it
> would be possible to deactivate the email service, update your source
> feed to have n new items in it, and *then* reactivate email without
> having a bunch of items sent out as a new email post. Let me find out.
> > Currently there are 30 episodes on the feed. I often receive
> > requests to make more shows available in iTunes.
> > I see that other prodcasts have up 100 episodes on their feeds. I
> > would like to increase the number.
> > About 1500 odd subscribers aren't using iTunes for our podcast feed,
> > but the Feedburner email subscription service.
> > My fear is that if I bump up from 30 to 100 episodes on the feed, our
> > email subscribers will get hit with 70 emails. I've noticed this
> > happen before when I've increased the feed number. The old episodes
> > coming onto the feed get emailed out.
> > I would hate to flood the email subscribers' in boxes, and I'm sure
> > they would unsubscribe in droves if I did.
> * Deactivate the email service
> * Increase your number of feed items to 100 in your feed
> * Reactivate your email service
> Let us know once you have reactivated and before your email delivery
> time so we can make sure that we computed digests for all those items.
> Thanks,
> On Jul 21, 6:24 pm, Matt S. wrote:
> > Normally if you suddenly added n items to your feed, no matter their
> > actual publication dates, our email service would correctly determine
> > those are all "new" to it (unless they had all previously appeared in
> > the feed before *while the email subscription service itself was
> > active*, and therefore FeedBurner knew about them). I don't know if it
> > would be possible to deactivate the email service, update your source
> > feed to have n new items in it, and *then* reactivate email without
> > having a bunch of items sent out as a new email post. Let me find out.
> > > Currently there are 30 episodes on the feed. I often receive
> > > requests to make more shows available in iTunes.
> > > I see that other prodcasts have up 100 episodes on their feeds. I
> > > would like to increase the number.
> > > About 1500 odd subscribers aren't using iTunes for our podcast feed,
> > > but the Feedburner email subscription service.
> > > My fear is that if I bump up from 30 to 100 episodes on the feed, our
> > > email subscribers will get hit with 70 emails. I've noticed this
> > > happen before when I've increased the feed number. The old episodes
> > > coming onto the feed get emailed out.
> > > I would hate to flood the email subscribers' in boxes, and I'm sure
> > > they would unsubscribe in droves if I did.
> * Deactivate the email service
> * Increase your number of feed items to 100 in your feed
> * Reactivate your email service
> Let us know once you have reactivated and before your email delivery
> time so we can make sure that we computed digests for all those items.
> Thanks,
> On Jul 21, 6:24 pm, Matt S. wrote:
> > Normally if you suddenly added n items to your feed, no matter their
> > actual publication dates, our email service would correctly determine
> > those are all "new" to it (unless they had all previously appeared in
> > the feed before *while the email subscription service itself was
> > active*, and therefore FeedBurner knew about them). I don't know if it
> > would be possible to deactivate the email service, update your source
> > feed to have n new items in it, and *then* reactivate email without
> > having a bunch of items sent out as a new email post. Let me find out.
> > > Currently there are 30 episodes on the feed. I often receive
> > > requests to make more shows available in iTunes.
> > > I see that other prodcasts have up 100 episodes on their feeds. I
> > > would like to increase the number.
> > > About 1500 odd subscribers aren't using iTunes for our podcast feed,
> > > but the Feedburner email subscription service.
> > > My fear is that if I bump up from 30 to 100 episodes on the feed, our
> > > email subscribers will get hit with 70 emails. I've noticed this
> > > happen before when I've increased the feed number. The old episodes
> > > coming onto the feed get emailed out.
> > > I would hate to flood the email subscribers' in boxes, and I'm sure
> > > they would unsubscribe in droves if I did.
Ok, I'm asking one more time. Thank you for your suggestion. You say
that I should let you know when I have reactivated the email service.
How do I let you know ???
> * Deactivate the email service
> * Increase your number of feed items to 100 in your feed
> * Reactivate your email service
> Let us know once you have reactivated and before your email delivery
> time so we can make sure that we computed digests for all those items.
> Thanks,
> On Jul 21, 6:24 pm, Matt S. wrote:
> > Normally if you suddenly added n items to your feed, no matter their
> > actual publication dates, our email service would correctly determine
> > those are all "new" to it (unless they had all previously appeared in
> > the feed before *while the email subscription service itself was
> > active*, and therefore FeedBurner knew about them). I don't know if it
> > would be possible to deactivate the email service, update your source
> > feed to have n new items in it, and *then* reactivate email without
> > having a bunch of items sent out as a new email post. Let me find out.
> > > Currently there are 30 episodes on the feed. I often receive
> > > requests to make more shows available in iTunes.
> > > I see that other prodcasts have up 100 episodes on their feeds. I
> > > would like to increase the number.
> > > About 1500 odd subscribers aren't using iTunes for our podcast feed,
> > > but the Feedburner email subscription service.
> > > My fear is that if I bump up from 30 to 100 episodes on the feed, our
> > > email subscribers will get hit with 70 emails. I've noticed this
> > > happen before when I've increased the feed number. The old episodes
> > > coming onto the feed get emailed out.
> > > I would hate to flood the email subscribers' in boxes, and I'm sure
> > > they would unsubscribe in droves if I did.
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