JavaBlogs and WordPress loves to repost old blog entries

Dear Charles Miller,

Thanks for getting in touch. What you have spotted here is not a problem. In fact there are two different posts on the same topic. However in one case there is a duplication because blogger.com switched to providing individual page per post. So far so good.
The problems I am facing is elsewhere and with a different blog - blog.taragana.com.

Because of the length of the topic I have posted the details here.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts on the issue.

–Angsuman

My analysis of the actual problem with JavaBlogs Aggregator

A technical analysis of the duplicate post problem in JavaBlogs….

Having written that part of the Javablogs code myself, I can assure you it does. Here is a post from your blog with seemingly mutating GUIDs:

javablogs=> select title,guid from blog_entry where blog = 12713 and title like ‘Better Eye%’;
title | guid
———————————————————————————–+———————————————————————————-
Better Eye Sight Without Glasses by Exercises, Herbal and Natural Therapy - Index | tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3131110.post-107369364497523089
Better Eye Sight Without Glasses by Exercises, | https://taragana.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_taragana_archive.html#78100189
Better Eye Sight Without Glasses by Exercises, Herbal | https://taragana.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_taragana_archive.html#107369364497523089
Better Eye Sight Without Glasses by Exercises, | https://taragana.blogspot.com/2004/01/better-eye-sight-without-glasses-by.html
(4 rows)

I provide RSS 2.0 feed to JavaBlogs and it includes the GUID.

However JavaBlogs doesn’t use it apparently!

So lets blame it solely on JavaBlogs

RSS2.0 has a GUID element for this very reason.