Quote Originally Posted by eadz
The rss feed shows the X newest posts. It doesn't know what posts you have and havn't looked at...
Thanks, eadz. That at least gives me some idea of how it should work. But it doesn't seem to be working that way. I'm not clear on what X is set to. I don't seem to have any such setting in Thunderbird, so I'm guessing it's set on the server side. But I do have a setting of how often to check for new articles, and I reduced it down to checking every ten minutes. It would seem that there would have to be a lot of posts witin just s few minutes for me to miss many posts with that setting. And yet, as I said, there were 32 new or updated threads when I first checked after getting up today, with more new posts than that since some threads had multiple new posts, but I only had a total of 6 in my RSS feed. I ran another this this afternoon. In a period where there were 25 new or updated threads, more posts than that since again some threads had multiple posts (and one more since I posted but wouldn't see that as an updated thread), but once again only 6 of them made it to my RSS feed. Hard to understand that happening if I'm checking as frequently as every ten minutes.

As I've said elsewhere, this isn't a big issue to me; I've determined that the web interface of new or updated threads is much more useful to me than the RSS feed and I'll be shutting Thunderbird down soon. But as far as how well it's working, I still think something is wrong.