One client didn’t want the author’s e-mail address directly visible, and though it was removed from the theme it still appeared in the feed. Fortunately there’s a filter for that:
function my_remove_author_from_feed( $author ) {
if ( is_feed() ) {
$author = '';
}
return $author;
}
add_filter('the_author', 'my_remove_author_from_feed');