Should I add to the chorus of guys shouting "good post! excellent! brilliant!" ? Nay, don't think so, altough I do feel the same in some sort of way.

Sometimes I did find it difficult to find the button for RSS subscription, but the one in the url-field never failed me with its auto-discovery. And, believe me, the average Joe doesn't have a clue of the difference between Atom / RSS / FeedBurner. It only matters for you. Actually, I get a bit annoyed because of the big-red-shiny-RSS-button, that has its lesser obstrusive copy up there.

With the newsletter I agree to some extent, but after all, people have to dig through useless mails daily. If you are a prolific writer, they may find themselves annoyed by the e-mail quantity received from you - especially if they don't feel like reading it right now, but nor do they want to delete it. Tricky business ..