diff --git a/doc/Groups-and-Privacy.md b/doc/Groups-and-Privacy.md
index 0ab1d7b45d..09c6a7349b 100644
--- a/doc/Groups-and-Privacy.md
+++ b/doc/Groups-and-Privacy.md
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ In case you haven't yet figured this out, we are encouraging you to encourage yo
 Profiles, Privacy, and Photos
 =============================
 
-The decentralised nature of Friendica (many websites exchanging information rather than one website which controls everything) has some implications with privacy as it relates to people on other sites. These are things you should be aware of, so you can decide best how to interact privately.
+The decentralised nature of Friendica (many websites exchanging information rather than one website which controls everything) has some implications with privacy as it relates to people on other sites. There are things you should be aware of, so you can decide best how to interact privately.
 
 Sharing photos privately is a problem. We can only share them __privately__ with Friendica members. In order to share with other people, we need to prove who they are. We can prove the identity of Friendica members, as we have a mechanism to do so. Your friends on other networks will be blocked from viewing these private photos because we cannot prove that they should be allowed to see them.
 
@@ -48,6 +48,6 @@ Your profile and "wall" may also be visited by your friends from other networks,
 
 This may produce undesired results when posting a long status message to (for instance) Twitter and even Facebook. When Friendica sends a post to these networks which exceeds the service length limit, we truncate it and provide a link to the original. The original is a link back to your Friendica profile. As Friendica cannot prove who they are, it may not be possible for these people to view your post in full.    
 
-For people in this situation we would recommend providing a "Twitter-length" summary, with more detail for friends on other networks.
+For people in this situation we would recommend providing a "Twitter-length" summary, with more detail for friends that can see the post in full. 
 
-Blocking your profile or entire Friendica site from unknown web visitors also has serious implications for communicating with StatusNet/identi.ca members. These networks communicate with others via public protocols that are not authenticated. In order to view your posts, these networks have to access them as an "unknown web visitor". If we allowed this, it would mean anybody could in fact see your posts, and you've instructed Friendica not to allow this. So be aware that the act of blocking your profile to unknown visitors has the effect of blocking communication with public networks (such as identi.ca) and feed readers such as Google Reader.   
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+Blocking your profile or entire Friendica site from unknown web visitors also has serious implications for communicating with StatusNet/identi.ca members. These networks communicate with others via public protocols that are not authenticated. In order to view your posts, these networks have to access them as an "unknown web visitor". If we allowed this, it would mean anybody could in fact see your posts, and you've instructed Friendica not to allow this. So be aware that the act of blocking your profile to unknown visitors also has the effect of blocking outbound communication with public networks (such as identi.ca) and feed readers such as Google Reader.   
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diff --git a/include/delivery.php b/include/delivery.php
index 677d893889..cbf602a0b4 100755
--- a/include/delivery.php
+++ b/include/delivery.php
@@ -272,10 +272,10 @@ function delivery_run($argv, $argc){
 
 				if($normal_mode) {
 					if($item_id == $item['id'] || $item['id'] == $item['parent'])
-						$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',$item_contact,$owner,true);
+						$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',null,$owner,true);
 				}
 				else
-					$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',$item_contact,$owner,true);
+					$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',null,$owner,true);
 
 			}
 
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ function delivery_run($argv, $argc){
 						continue;
 
 					if(($top_level) && ($public_message) && ($item['author-link'] === $item['owner-link']) && (! $expire)) 
-						$slaps[] = atom_entry($item,'html',$item_contact,$owner,true);
+						$slaps[] = atom_entry($item,'html',null,$owner,true);
 				}
 
 				logger('notifier: slapdelivery: ' . $contact['name']);
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index 347826042e..ba4ec036fe 100755
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -1505,13 +1505,18 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0)
 				$item_id  = $item->get_id();
 				$datarray = get_atom_elements($feed,$item);
 
-				if(! x($datarray,'author-name'))
+
+				if((! x($datarray,'author-name')) && ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_DFRN))
 					$datarray['author-name'] = $contact['name'];
-				if(! x($datarray,'author-link'))
+				if((! x($datarray,'author-link')) && ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_DFRN))
 					$datarray['author-link'] = $contact['url'];
-				if(! x($datarray,'author-avatar'))
+				if((! x($datarray,'author-avatar')) && ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_DFRN))
 					$datarray['author-avatar'] = $contact['thumb'];
 
+				if((! x($datarray,'author-name')) || (! x($datarray,'author-link'))) {
+					logger('consume_feed: no author information! ' . print_r($datarray,true));
+					continue;
+				}
 
 				$r = q("SELECT `uid`, `last-child`, `edited`, `body` FROM `item` WHERE `uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 					dbesc($item_id),
@@ -1614,14 +1619,19 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0)
 				$datarray = get_atom_elements($feed,$item);
 
 				if(is_array($contact)) {
-					if(! x($datarray,'author-name'))
+					if((! x($datarray,'author-name')) && ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_DFRN))
 						$datarray['author-name'] = $contact['name'];
-					if(! x($datarray,'author-link'))
+					if((! x($datarray,'author-link')) && ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_DFRN))
 						$datarray['author-link'] = $contact['url'];
-					if(! x($datarray,'author-avatar'))
+					if((! x($datarray,'author-avatar')) && ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_DFRN))
 						$datarray['author-avatar'] = $contact['thumb'];
 				}
 
+				if((! x($datarray,'author-name')) || (! x($datarray,'author-link'))) {
+					logger('consume_feed: no author information! ' . print_r($datarray,true));
+					continue;
+				}
+
 				// special handling for events
 
 				if((x($datarray,'object-type')) && ($datarray['object-type'] === ACTIVITY_OBJ_EVENT)) {
diff --git a/include/notifier.php b/include/notifier.php
index 37bc6dae51..8ec6252860 100755
--- a/include/notifier.php
+++ b/include/notifier.php
@@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ function notifier_run($argv, $argc){
 					continue;
 				if($item['id'] == $item_id) {
 					logger('notifier: followup: item: ' . print_r($item,true), LOGGER_DATA);
-					$slap  = atom_entry($item,'html',$owner,$owner,false);
-					$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',$owner,$owner,false);
+					$slap  = atom_entry($item,'html',null,$owner,false);
+					$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',null,$owner,false);
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -410,13 +410,13 @@ function notifier_run($argv, $argc){
 					// older sites without a corresponding dfrn_notify change may do the wrong thing.
 
 				    if($item_id == $item['id'] || $item['id'] == $item['parent'])
-						$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',$contact,$owner,true);
+						$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',null,$owner,true);
 				}
 				else
-					$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',$contact,$owner,true);
+					$atom .= atom_entry($item,'text',null,$owner,true);
 
 				if(($top_level) && ($public_message) && ($item['author-link'] === $item['owner-link']) && (! $expire)) 
-					$slaps[] = atom_entry($item,'html',$contact,$owner,true);
+					$slaps[] = atom_entry($item,'html',null,$owner,true);
 			}
 		}
 	}