excluding forum from rss feed

[DoB Rhapsody]

Well, i'm stumped so i'm here making a topic like everyone else :(
No matter what i do i can't seem to get my bot forums excluded from my rss feed. I'm using the url:

http://lockoutgaming.net/external.php?type=rss2&lastpost=1&excludeids=173,174,175,176,177,178&notitleids=1

[Lynne]

If you made your bot forums not viewable to the public, then they won't show up in your rss feed.

[DoB Rhapsody]

They are not listed under normal forums but viewable if the url is know. I have a page that lists them so users can view the feeds.

the rss feed still includes them.

[Lynne]

As far as I know, there is no way to do an 'exclude=x' with the feed. And, even if you could write it that way, someone could see the exclude and just not include it and then see the forum feed. I think you would actually have to go into the external.php page and modify the code to explicitly exclude your forum.