same thing in my aggregator … and no idea what to do about it… I can’t unsubscibe because these feeds aren’t even listed in my prefs… Feels like someone’s spamming my aggregator… what should we do, wipe the whole list out and start again?

Oh, sorry, I didn’t notice that the title was a link. When I checked your aggregator, I saw the Laughing Librarian “posts” first…Now that I see that there are several troublesome feeds, I would suggest either having something done our end to delete the feeds (or, at least, allow these “no title” feeds to appear in the subscription list so that they can be deleted) or contacting RSSify, since the deletion of the titles (which must have happened very recently) is the source of the problem. The first option will probably be the most fruitful of the two.

The problem feed I linked to above is http://www.libraryman.com/blog/. I’m getting these messages for several different feeds in my aggregator. I’m not going to list them all here. I haven’t seen the feeds in my aggregator for a long time, so I’m a little surprised to suddenly get hammered with these unsubscribe notices. (I may not *read* anything in my aggregator, but I do try to skim it at least once a day.)

The problem feed seems to be The Laughing Librarian, which used RSSify for its feed. RSSify was having bandwidth problems and wanted users to use their own bandwidth. Unfortunately, the annoying feed messages only bother readers/subscribers not the actual RSSify users in most cases, the owners of the sites who created the feeds through RSSify. Grrr…

Those unsubscribe warnings had been happening for months, and I unsubscribed a month or two ago. That does not seem to be an option now, however, because the title has been deleted from the feed by either the weblog owner(s) or RSSify, and Manila’s aggregator does not seem to recognize feeds without titles even if they had titles before. The Laughing Librarian feed is now missing from the list of Harvard subscriptions, although people, clearly, are subscribed.

If nothing can be done on the Harvard end, I would suggest contacting the owner of The Laughing Librarian. Perhaps, they can add the title to the feed again (or contact someone who can)…It would be nice if this can be resolved. I miss getting my regular library laughs, and an aggregator filled with unsubscribe messages is not funny at all