it seems like i've finally figured out some sort of a solution, but
had to do it through typepad in the end--on typepad I switched my
settings to 'post excerpts' rather than full posts and that seems to
have done the trick; feed reader delivery has resumed again, and I
believe that email delivery has as well. I was not able to reduce the
amount of posts delivered in my feed as FB suggests in this link:
http://www.google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=79626&q...
I really could find no other way to solve it through feedburner. If I
tried to reduce the number of posts or to activate SummaryBurner, I
was simply given the message over and over that my feed size was too
large--over 512K, which was baffling, as according to the info I'd
found, I thought I was doing exactly what I needed to do to reduce
that feed size by taking those actions.
I know that feedburner is under google but my only suggestion would be
to have more information in the help section on how to reduce the
number of posts included in the feed, as it seems they only give info
for blogger, and that really didn't work for me as I am on typepad(see
above) and ended up causing a lot of frustration. I guess I'm fairly
dumb when it comes to solving these sorts of tech issues--up til now
FB has seemed very user friendly, and I think generally it is, except
apparently in this type of situation.
You can definitely search for people with similar problems in these
discussions, but it seems like it would be helpful and a big time- and
frustration-saver if feedburner would give you more problem-solving
and troubleshooting information in a centralized place on their site.
Just an idea if anybody from FB reads this. Thanks