If you don't want to read a long explanation of how RSS feeds currently work and why people may already be reading your journal this way, I suggest you scroll to the bolded bit in the middle, where I link to an explanation of how to change your LJ's RSS feed to show less information.
Do you have a problem with RSS feeds? I realize many people do across the board, but if you don't, this is not any different from an RSS feed except for allowing authenticated posts to be read through an online feed reader. And that's easy to stop: don't allow access to people who are going to read from DW.
It is already possible to read your LJ friendslist via an offline authenticated RSS feed reader: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=306 That, I don't know of any way to determine whether any of your readers are doing so.
RSS feeds aren't opt-in on LJ. I'm not sure there's a way to disable it at all, or even a way to control what they show (as webcomic artists often do--ensuring that their feeds link to their site instead of hotlinking images).
I understand your concerns about DW--but these technologies already exist and people may already be using them to read your LJ. A more effective solution would be to convince LJ to allow users the ability to disable RSS feeds. You can, however, set your LJ's RSS feed to show only title, or title and a teaser, rather than full-text. It's buried in the FAQ: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149 That should solve your voyeur concerns, unless you think people are going to read one paragraph of each of your entries and never click through.
Here's LJ's policy on other sites who don't want their content syndicated on LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=155 They say you have to block LJ's IP address from viewing your RSS feed. Unfortunately, I doubt you can get LJ to block DW's IP address from viewing your RSS feed specifically, and there are plenty of LJ users who would object to an across the board ban.
Practical: LJ allowing users more control over their own RSS feeds. (Although it looks like they probably can't allow disabling RSS feeds--I can't find anything more recent than this--so syndications levels may be the most control users will get, and since the lowest syndication setting is "title and link only", that's pretty high control, IMO.)
Not practical: Expecting DW and every online and offline feed reader in existence to wait for people to give them permission to pull RSS feeds (which is what opt-in would mean). That would be the death of RSS, because who's going to go to 10s or 100s of places and say "Yeah, you can pull my RSS feed" every time they start a blog? Some people would like the death of RSS, it's true. You may be one of them. But if you use RSS and simply object to this, then I don't think you're aware of what RSS is already capable of.
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Do you have a problem with RSS feeds? I realize many people do across the board, but if you don't, this is not any different from an RSS feed except for allowing authenticated posts to be read through an online feed reader. And that's easy to stop: don't allow access to people who are going to read from DW.
It is already possible to read your LJ friendslist via an offline authenticated RSS feed reader: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=306
That, I don't know of any way to determine whether any of your readers are doing so.
RSS feeds aren't opt-in on LJ. I'm not sure there's a way to disable it at all, or even a way to control what they show (as webcomic artists often do--ensuring that their feeds link to their site instead of hotlinking images).
I understand your concerns about DW--but these technologies already exist and people may already be using them to read your LJ. A more effective solution would be to convince LJ to allow users the ability to disable RSS feeds. You can, however, set your LJ's RSS feed to show only title, or title and a teaser, rather than full-text. It's buried in the FAQ: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=149 That should solve your voyeur concerns, unless you think people are going to read one paragraph of each of your entries and never click through.
Here's LJ's policy on other sites who don't want their content syndicated on LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=155
They say you have to block LJ's IP address from viewing your RSS feed. Unfortunately, I doubt you can get LJ to block DW's IP address from viewing your RSS feed specifically, and there are plenty of LJ users who would object to an across the board ban.
Practical: LJ allowing users more control over their own RSS feeds. (Although it looks like they probably can't allow disabling RSS feeds--I can't find anything more recent than this--so syndications levels may be the most control users will get, and since the lowest syndication setting is "title and link only", that's pretty high control, IMO.)
Not practical: Expecting DW and every online and offline feed reader in existence to wait for people to give them permission to pull RSS feeds (which is what opt-in would mean). That would be the death of RSS, because who's going to go to 10s or 100s of places and say "Yeah, you can pull my RSS feed" every time they start a blog? Some people would like the death of RSS, it's true. You may be one of them. But if you use RSS and simply object to this, then I don't think you're aware of what RSS is already capable of.