In a nutshell, full feeds are awesome for the user in terms of reading content and not having to visit the site if they don’t want to/have the time. However, it makes it extremely easy for spammers to aggregate your content for their malevolent ways. Partial feeds are more spammer-proof yet they might annoy your readers.
Jon at Monday By Noon and Paul Stamatiou debate the choice between offering partial feeds versus full RSS feeds.
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