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On 15/02/2008, Rick Hurst <rick.hurst at gmail.com> wrote:
> meh.. just pick one :) Most decent RSS readers will be set up to read
>  all the common formats

Absolutely, then you can use FeedBurner as your RSS/Atom delivery
mechanism and set it up to enable its "SmartFeed" service:

"Reach the widest possible audience while publishing a single feed on
your blog or site. Translates your feed on-the-fly into a format (RSS
or Atom) compatible with your visitors' feed reader application."

IOW, it sniffs the http_accept header of the RSS client app and serves
up the most appropriate format.

FeedBurner is really rather good for lots of other reasons too:
* less RSS traffic hammering your own servers
* you get decent usage stats
* RSS requests don't pollute your web server logs (if you still use
them for analysis)
* RSS feeds themselves are more user-friendly (no "programmer's
undergarments" on display, as our MD once said when he clicked on a
link to an RSS feed)

Tim