PSA, pass it on!
Got this from griffen. Not something I'd even thought of, but obviously other people have, so I'm passing it on.
IF YOU ARE LEAVING LJ and you plan to make an RSS feed of someone else's journal so that you can continue to read it elsewhere:
Do not create an RSS feed and name it with a username. Doing so blocks the use of that username by its owner. Always create RSS feeds with a prefix or suffix such as "ij_stewardess" or "stewardess_rss" and so on.
RSS feed names are treated just like usernames, and that creates problems.
For instance, if an InsaneJournal member had created a feed named "stewardess" for my LiveJournal, I would be unable to get an account called "stewardess" at InsaneJournal.
[From here.]
IF YOU ARE LEAVING LJ and you plan to make an RSS feed of someone else's journal so that you can continue to read it elsewhere:
Do not create an RSS feed and name it with a username. Doing so blocks the use of that username by its owner. Always create RSS feeds with a prefix or suffix such as "ij_stewardess" or "stewardess_rss" and so on.
RSS feed names are treated just like usernames, and that creates problems.
For instance, if an InsaneJournal member had created a feed named "stewardess" for my LiveJournal, I would be unable to get an account called "stewardess" at InsaneJournal.
[From here.]