RSS problem

Heres what I found out about the problem with the RSS feeds: "News feeds (Atom, RSS) don't work with private blogs, because there's no way to provide an account for the readers to login with. It's a feature of the design. http://bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com/2006/12/blogger-blogs-and-permissions.html " I guess we will just have to keep the blogs public??