> Maybe RSS could be dropped? Are there news readers that support RSS but not Atom? Unfortunately yes. Gnus has not gotten Atom support yet (people keep using

> Maybe RSS could be dropped? Are there news readers that support RSS but not Atom? Unfortunately yes. Gnus has not gotten Atom support yet (people keep using external programs to translate). Also far too many feeds still output RSS instead of Atom. RSS is a horrible format and there is no reason today to use it instead of Atom.