– In some contexts, monetizing feeds is much more difficult than monetizing the originating site (particularly when dealing with local, technologically-timid advertisers, as newspaper/traditional media advertisers often are).

– I’ll leave it to the RSS spec (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) to tell me about “the spirit of RSS”. And what does it have to say? I quote, “An item may represent a ‘story’ — much like a story in a newspaper or magazine; if so its description is a synopsis of the story, and the link points to the full story. An item may also be complete in itself, if so, the description contains the text (entity-encoded HTML is allowed; see examples), and the link and title may be omitted. All elements of an item are optional, however at least one of title or description must be present.” So it’s either/or. And technically, if you want to talk about the “spirit” of it, “description” sounds a lot more like a summary than the full text.

– I think the producer of the content should be able to dictate the context in which his/her content is ingested.

– Smart words from smart people are more important to me than holding to a silly, unfounded “movement”.

But I do agree with you in that it’s nice to have the option of a full feed for my aggregator.

I’ll post about your movement in a bit.