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By: Jake Savin (jake at userland.com)

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Manila can generate an RSS feed for your site's discussion group. Having an RSS feed for your discussion group makes it easy for you and your readers to follow the discussion on your site using any news aggregator which supports RSS.
See this page for a list of news <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/directory/5/aggregators">aggregators</a> which can read Manila's RSS feeds.
This feature is enabled now on all UserLand-hosted Manila sites. To get the new feature, <a href="http://frontier.userland.com/howToUpdate">update</a> Manila.root.
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How to
   Here's how to enable the RSS feed for your site's discussion group:
   1. Go to your site's Syndication prefs page: Click the Prefs link in the Editors Only menu, and then click the Syndication link.
   2. In the first section, enable or disable syndication, click Yes to syndicate your discussion group.
   3. Click the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
   4. Verify that your discussion group RSS feed is working. Your discussion group's RSS feed is the URL of your discussion group plus rss.xml.
   For example if your discussion group is at http://www.example.com/discuss/, then your discussion group's RSS feed will be here: 
   http://www.mysite.com/discuss/rss.xml 
Notes
   If your site's template includes the <a href="http://macros.userland.com/basic/rssLink">rssLink</a> macro, then the XML icon on your site's discussion group pages will link to your discussion group's RSS feed, when the feature is enabled.
   Manila supports Etag/If-None-Match HTTP headers for discussion group RSS feeds.
See Also
   Technology at Harvard Law: <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss">RSS 2.0 Specification</a>