Re: Yahoo RSS feed

["Bill Kearney" <ml_yahoo@ideaspace.net>]

> I didn't know about the availability of this feature - pretty 
interesting.
> The only disappointment is that the titles of the items contain the 
name of
> the message poster, not the message subject, and that the 
description only
> contains the subject line.

Yes, the could do a better job.  This is a *very* old feature of the 
eGroups software.  It's never been updated (or at least not recently).


> My guess is that they're probably trying to ensure that people 
still visit
> the Yahoo Groups site (read: .. and still generate advertising 
revenue...)
> to get actual message content.  This, unfortunately, makes these 
RSS feed
> pretty useless for my needs - I can get more usable content by just 
having
> the messages delivered to my inbox.

Sure, but for groups you don't read often it can be a great way to 
keep tabs on them.  That /without/ cluttering up your inbox with 
digests.  I set most of my groups to "No email" and put them in my 
aggregator.  Once in a great while one of those groups pops up with 
something worthwhile.  So visiting the website isn't all that 
inconvenient.  There are groups that I /don't/ read via the 
aggregator.  Those come, as you mention, directly to my inbox.  It's 
a balancing act.  The nice thing is having the choice to do either.

-Bill Kearney