Offering Multiple Feed Formats

Nat Lanza recently wrote on Twitter, "Dear weblog authors: I pretty
much never want to have to figure out *which* of your feeds to
subscribe to. Pick a format and stick with it."

http://twitter.com/nlanza/statuses/776809841

I have the same thought every time I find a site that offers a choice
of its feed in RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 or Atom formats. This approach
actively deters subscribers, because most web users have no idea how
to make this choice and it scares them off.

Should the RSS Advisory Board recommend that feed publishers offer
their feeds in one format only, whether they choose Atom, RSS 1.0 or
RSS 2.0 as that format?


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