[pwdisswordfishy]

> message at the top about the feed being meant for news readers

There's no real reason to take this position. A styled XML document is just another page.

For example, if you're using a static site generator where the front page of your /blog.html shows the most recent N posts, and the /blog/feed.xml shows the most recent N posts, then...?

[Zak]

A reason to add that explanation to a styled RSS feed is to teach visitors what newsreaders are.

[pwdisswordfishy]

A message explaining what feeds and feedreaders are would suffice for that.