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Site News The previous attempt at email the links in didn't work, but at the risk of this becoming the plan scene from Shaun of the Dead ('Oh - ok - gaaay ...') You may have noticed, I think I've cracked it and without fighting through hundreds of zombies to get to the pub. Here is the new methodology:

(1) I've set up a Blogspot weblog just for the purpose with an atom feed turned on.
(2) Gone to FeedBurner and used this empty atom feed for that weblog to create a smart feed which includes my Delicious links
(3) Subscribe to this new FeedBurner at Bloglines.
(4) Wait fir the Delicious links are collated together at the end of the day by FeedBurner and posted to the feed
(5) When this post appears at Bloglines, using the feature there to email the post using the Blogger email-to-blog facility.
(6) Go into the edit posts feature at Blogger and edit out all of the header and footer html gunk that Bloglines has sent with the post.
(7) Repost.
(8) Mutedly cheer at a marginal success.

It's not the automatic approach I was hoping to come up with, but it works fairly well as you can see. Luckily I haven't been using Delicious all that long, so it didn't take too much time to go back in and repost all of the previous entries retrospectively so that a true picture can be found now. It means that people can continue to keep using the old RSS feed as everything is going to appear there now, and also people who read the blog from the web won't be missing out on anything if they don't want to fish about in the Delicious link. And all with hardly any coding experience whatever.

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