Hi. I have a suggestion. Can you put an option to not receive RSS Feeds for a specific member?

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean not allowing a member to subscribe to the
list's RSS feed? That feed's public, so I'm not sure how that would be
implemented.

I don't know. If a member of my group asks to not receive any RSS Feeds, there should be an option for that member to not receive RSS Feeds.

That... Doesn't, I don't think, clear up the suggestion any. *confused*

Armando,

Hello James,
I'll try to clarify, assuming I'm getting it? :) Have the ability to disable RSS individually, just like mail delivery.

Yeah, that's what I thought you meant. The feed URL is entirely public. If
members don't want to receive that RSS feed, they can tell their reader of
choice not to follow that RSS feed. You don't need to be a member of the
list to follow it, after all.

I'm seriously old tech - and have never quite gotten what,
exactly, an "RSS feed" is.

If I am a member of a group (beta), I have a choice of
email, digest, special notices, nomail (I think - I get
email, so that's the only one I know for sure.).

If I am getting an "RSS feed" from Beta - what is it and
where is it going?

If it is simply a notification - FB and Twit allow me to
turn notifications on or off per person (and "thread").
Plus my phone allows me to turn off notifications (and
assume any android phone does - and i or w phones or
tablets).

If it is more than a notification - then I would hope
it would follow the email choice options.

IOW, I agree that if a member is wanting to go noRSS
they could, just like noMail.

dg

dg,

I'm seriously old tech - and have never quite gotten what,
exactly, an "RSS feed" is.

Rich Site Summary (aka Really Simple Syndication) - it is a mechanism for new web page postings (primarily from blogs, but also messages from groups with public archives) to be delivered to you in a simple digest form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

If I am getting an "RSS feed" from Beta - what is it and
where is it going?

RSS is something you must set up in an RSS reader, or aggregator service, or other software. If you haven't done that, then you aren't getting one.

For what it's worth, Yahoo Groups once supported RSS feeds for groups with public archives, but that seems to have been lost with the Neo redesign.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130410111215/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/GroupManagersForum/
There's a small orange RSS badge just above the message history table. If you have the Sage plug-in to Firefox (or another browser-based RSS reader) you can click that badge to see the digest of that group, at that time.

-- Shal

On 1/9/2016 1:42 PM, Shal Farley wrote:

RSS is something you must set up in an RSS reader, or aggregator service, or other software. If you haven't done that, then you aren't getting one.

Okay - still not sure what the big deal of it is - but it
sounds like the answer for the OP is to tell the member to
just not enable it?

dg

dg,

Okay - still not sure what the big deal of it is -

It isn't really a big deal. But if you're a member of a lot of low-activity groups, or like to read a lot of blogs, it can be handy to set up all their feeds in a reader or aggregator, and thereby get a single digest that contains any recent messages from all those different sources.

RSS wouldn't really be appropriate, in my opinion, for keeping up with a very busy email list. For that a conventional digest from that list is probably the better choice.

but it sounds like the answer for the OP is to tell the member to just
not enable it?

I'm not sure, but Mark may have addressed the actual question.

One of the available Integrations in a group is to post messages from an RSS feed (or maybe more than one). For example, if I had a blog where I post major articles, I could integrate its RSS feed to my group. This would cause a "blurb" (digest) of the article to be posted in the group whenever I make a new blog post. That might be appropriate if the blog and the group are on the same topic, and it might be a better way of having a user community comment on your blog than using the blog service's comment mechanism.

So if the OP's group has such an integration, then there may have been a member hoping to not receive the RSS "blurbs". Muting the #feed hashtag would be a solution for that.

-- Shal