Styling feeds III

A comment I received about styling feeds [1]:

If you are concerned about the people reading your entries via RSS (Really Simple Syndication), change your feed to only include a subject, a link, and maybe a small snip of the entry so they will be forced to view your site to read the full entry.
That's how I've seen most RSS feeds do it these day's anyways
“Squeaky [2]”

I responded that doing so would cut my readership (those that read through RSS would drop, and yes, it would. Some of the experiments I've read about, providing just the titles, or titles and an extract of the post, garners fewer readers than providing the entirety of the post in the feed.

And I have a nice number of people that read my site through my feed (Squeaky included). I'm also surprised this hasn't been addresses yet. Or if it has, I haven't come across anyone addressing this issue yet.

(Yes, today was a rather quiet day—why do you ask?)

[1] /boston/2006/04/25.3

[2] http://squeaky19.livejournal.com/

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