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Will YahooGroups RSS Feeds Ever Work w/a WP.com RSS Widget?

Today's Date 7/19/13:

About a year ago I set up a wordpress.com blog that is public. I used their RSS widget to show my public/archives-open-to-anyone Yahoogroup RSS feed. Not once has it ever showed any of the Yahoogroup posts in that feed (other RSS feeds show up fine, so it can't be the wordpress.com RSS widget's fault, but the problem must be with YG RSS feeds).

I see others saying YG RSS feeds are not working (June-July 2013). Mine has never worked for a year.

So will it ever work?

Again, the YG is public & archives are set to anyone-can-view.

Thanks!

Update:

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UPDATE: Hi EchoS (below): Thank you for the link & response. However, it only gives 2 reasons why a YG RSS Feed may not work:

1. The YG is an "Adult" group = That does not apply to my YG.

2. The Archives are not set so "Anyone" can view them = Also does not apply to my YG as Archives are public.

So the mystery continues as to why my YG-RSS-Link does not work on my Wordpress.com associated blog when the YG-RSS-Link is inserted in a Wordpress.com RSS Widget (RSS-Links from other websites work fine in that same type widget).

Thanks again!

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Update 2:

UPDATE 7/19/13: NEW ADDITIONAL YG-RSS PROBLEM:

Since YG does not have auto-post-to-Twitter, I put my same above YG-RSS-Link into a free RSS-Delivery-to-Twitter-Service called DLVR.it. They auto-check the YG-RSS-Feed every 30-mins. & deliver new entries to Twitter, but it's been 24-hours & the new YG entries are not showing up at Twitter. So evidently, YG-RSS-Feeds/Link also does not work with DLVR.it nor WordPress.com widgets.

(FYI: I use DLVR.it for OTHER -- non-YG -- RSS Links to feed/deliver to Twitter & those work fine. So, again, the problem is not with DLVR.it but with YG-RSS-Feeds/Links.)

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