Hey, partitially good news: my local RssBandit beat build 109 does not fail anymore on Sam's test feed, if it is compiled with .NET 1.0: http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/01/12/broken.rss. It display the Not so smart quotes post with content Postels law. But IE and also the validator still fails and complain about:

The XML page cannot be displayed

Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

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An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/01/12/broke...

      <description>Postel

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

line 15, column 25: XML Parsing error: <unknown>:15:25: not well-formed (invalid token) [help]
      <description>Postel’s law</description>
                        ^

Looks like, we "simply gathering the data" now...

But note: if I compile against .NET 1.1, it fails parsing on invalid character in the given enconding. 
So .NET 1.0 uses a more lazy XML implementation? 

Should we switch back to just "gather the data"?