From cwsg@sevush.com Wed May 04 11:19:17 2005
Subject:RE: OT: Request for RSS support for this group (attn: Moderator)

It would be huge change to make the messages public. Since messages must be
public to enable RSS, we'll pass for now. If RSS works w/membership lists,
we'd probably take advantage of it.

> Would it be possible to enable support for RSS for this group?
> It would enable us to
> use really convenient programs like FeedDemon to read our
> messages from these groups
> rather than going to the webpage or waiting for emails. It's
> really amazing, I
> recommend everyone to give it a shot. It makes reading all of
> these messages so much
> easier and fun, it's pretty cool.
>
> Anyway, yahoo now supports RSS for all of their groups, but the
> moderator has to agree
> to it and change some of the group's settings. Here is Yahoo's
> FAQ for it:
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/rss
>
> I think the one major stipulation is that the group has to be
> open to the public,
> meaning that anyone can join and read the posts. I, personally,
> don't have a problem
> with that. I don't think we talk about anything that needs to
> remain private, and I
> don't think we'll have problems with people abusing our board.
> But, I'm sure others
> feel differently about it. Let's at least consider it. I really
> recommend that you try
> out RSS feeds with a program like FeedDemon and see how cool it is.