Effective immediately, all syn supporthelps will also receive the canview:entryprops priv as part of their priv package. This priv will permit you to view meta-information about entries by going to
this page and pasting in an entry link.
Syn-wise, the useful lines are mostly:
User Date/Time: 2009-02-20 05:00:00
Server Date/Time: 2009-02-20 05:22:49
# syn_id:
http://xkcd.com/546/Unique id of syndication item
# syn_link:
http://xkcd.com/546/Original URL of syndication item
User date/time is the date and time that were listed in the feed, and server date/time is the time synsuck ran and posted the entry to LJ. syn_id is the GUID or other unique ID that LiveJournal picked up for the entry, and syn_link is the attribute's information. For an outstanding guide to reading entryprops output, check
this post to
support_interim.
Of course, you're being given the priv to do syn stuff, there may be sensitive information exposed through entryprops, abuse of the tool will you get whomped, etc. etc.
Thanks for all you all do for the category!