Julian Bond wrote:
> Andre Taube <andre.taube@...> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:16:59
>
>> Does anyone know how to prevent My Yahoo making a private RSS feed
>> searchable. So if I have an RSS feed that I want someone to add to
>> their My Yahoo, I don't want anyone go to "add content" and being
>> able to find that feed.
>>
>> Any pointers are greatly appreciated!
>
> If it's private, don't put it on the web. ;-)
>
> Seriously though, the only sure fire way to do this is to use http
> auth and require an id and password. Most aggregators have a way of
> storing these so that authorised people will be able to read it. But
> it will stop a spider (like Yahoo) from accessing it.

Yup, Julian is right. My Yahoo! currently doesn't store your login
credentials or handle "private" feeds.

Jeremy
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