Full or summary RSS feeds

This may not be a new discussion in blogosphere but I think here it is new. A recent incident compelled me to start this new thread. We can setup RSS feeds in two ways, full contents in feed or the summery only. Here some advantages and disadvantages of both the methods.

Full post Feed

Advantages :

• Subscribers need not to visit the blog for reading the post. They will get the whole post in their inbox.
• Publishers can insert ads along with the feed (Eg: Adsense for feeds)
• Full post can be embedded with other social bookmarking links such as digg, Twitter, Buzz, Facebookshare etc for further promotion.

Disadvantages:

• It will reduce the traffic and page views of your blog because readers need not to visit the blog for reading the post.
• Autoblogging scripts use  feed grabbers, so your whole posts will be displayed in such type of blogs, which can reduce the traffic.

Summary feeds

Advantages

• If you are publishing many posts in a day, then partial feeds will be suitable because the subscriber may not scroll down the mail for reading all the posts.
• Can prevent content stealing.
• You can analyse the popularity of your article through partial feeds. Subscriber will visit the blog, only if the topic is interesting.

Disadvantages

• Monetization through feed is not possible.
• Many readers don't like partial feeds, so it can reduce your feed subscription
• If you are using the feeds as site map, then the search engines can not index the whole contents .
• Many people dont like partial feeds, this can reduce the subscription

What you think ? Please post your opinion as a reader and a blogger. As a reader I prefer full feeds and as blogger I prefer partial feeds.

Recently I swithced over to partial feeds. Main reason was content theft. It is very sad to see that one blogger in indiblogger network is also using feed grabber to steal my blog contents and shamelessly displaying in his blog without any credit.