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		pwdisswordfishy 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere > message at the top about the feed being meant for news readers There's no real reason to take this position. A styled XML document is just another page. For example, if you're using a static site generator where the front page of your /blog.html shows the most recent N posts, and the /blog/feed.xml shows the most recent N posts, then...?

Zak 16 days ago [–]

A reason to add that explanation to a styled RSS feed is to teach visitors what newsreaders are.

pwdisswordfishy 16 days ago | [–]

A message explaining what feeds and feedreaders are would suffice for that.

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