This is interesting, but one major caveat with using rss feeders to read
private lists is that a service such as bloglines will make it publicly
available (via searching, say on key words), even if you mark that
subscription in bloglines as "private".  Doing so merely means your account
won't publicly display the feed as one of the ones its subscribed to, but
the contents will be available otherwise.

There are people who tied their gmail accounts (which does offer a feed, for
some insane reason)  into their blogline accounts and had all their email
available for people to see.

So I'd exercise caution with a private subscriber-only list -- and it might
not be a bad idea to check some of the popular ones to see if a subscriber
of yours has done something like this...

On 11/10/06, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> FYI:
>
> NewzCrawler 1.8.0 build 3312 gets an error "unknown format"
>
> FeedValidator produces error messages:
>
>
> http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeach.ease.lsoft.com%2Fscripts%2Fwa.exe%3FRSS%26L%3DLSTOWN-L
>
> Bloglines seems to accept it.
>
> FireFox 2.0 doesn't recognize the web page as a feed (in order to
> subscribe) BUT it you update an existing "live" bookmark, it will then be
> able to read it.
>
> Earlier versions of LISTSERV had problems too but I did not do extensive
> checking back then.
>
> As I recall, you can append some other parms on the URL to force certain
> formats [&v=]
>
> I used the new web form to search the archives, but that for no longer has
> a SENDER to subset the search (I was looking for LSOFT posters).
>
> Found it anyway:
>
>
> http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0605&L=LSTOWN-L&P=R530&I=-3&K=1&d=No+Match%3BMatch%3BMatches
>
>
> >Also available are:
> >
> >RSS 2.0:
> >http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=LSTOWN-L&v=2.0
> >
> >Atom 1.0:
> >http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=LSTOWN-L&v=ATOM1.0
>
>
> This page:
>
> http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LSTOWN-L
>
> has some orange and blue icons (after the index of archives, but before
> the paragraph SUBSCRIBE) that links to the appropriate veeds.
>
> Strangely, some WEB pages don't have that info e.g.,
>
> http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A0=SPAM-L
>
> (I'm subscribed, since I'm one of the list-owners).
>
>
> /Pete Weiss
>
> At 17:47 11/10/2006 Friday, Melissa Kenny wrote:
> >Francoise,
> >
> >I thought I'd try the RSS feed in 15.0 as I believe it is supposed to be
> >supported there.  However, I opened
> >http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?RSS&L=LSTOWN-L in Internet
> >Explorer 7, and get an error that "Internet Explorer does not support
> this
> >feed
> >format."
> >
> >I am able to display the RSS feed in Safari, but IE 7 doesn't like it.
> >I'm able to
> >see other RSS feeds without problem in IE 7.  Hopefully, you will fix
> this
> >before
> >release.  Thanks!
> >
> >Melissa
> End Reply
>