Radio discussion forum: posting to radio.weblogs.com without using Radio 8? [via Kevin Altis, March 22, 2002] [T]here’s no given way to completely synchronize two copies of Radio. Radio is designed to be installed one place. There are several ways to use Radio from multiple places…
Let me be the first to advise against leaving your desktop machine on, net-connected, and world-visible, while running a server of any kind (which Radio is). Assuming you can even do this (i.e. you have an always-on connection and a quasi-static IP address), your computer will probably be hacked within 24 hours. That, and running a publicly accessible server (which Radio is) probably violates your ISP’s terms of service for residential users. Lots of people got in trouble for (intentionally or not) running IIS servers last year when Code Red hit, and cable modem/DSL ISPs just started summarily disconnecting anyone running any kind of web servers, IIS or not.
The mail-to-weblog looks interesting, but IIRC, Jonathon Delacour had a wretched time actually using it (because his ISP reformatted his messages), and then he couldn’t fix the formatting because mail-to-weblog doesn’t support editing existing posts. It’s like doing the Times crossword puzzle in ink, writ large. Maybe they’ve fixed that since. If it was smart enough to
…then that would be a really cool feature, an easy way for Radio to act like a server without actually being a server.
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