RSS - Downloading entire articles?

[JonV]

Speaking of RSS, I was wondering about something. More and more I see RSS feeds applied to forums within a forum site. For example PPCGeeks has an RSS feed for the Pocket PC software forum as well as each individual forum for phones, etc.

Subscribing though seems to only notify of new threads in the forum not replies to existing threads. Know what I mean? Is it just a shortcoming of RSS technology in general?

I use my reader for seeing news articles that get posted at various sources. How nice would it be to also see activity at the various forums I participate in. Currently RSS only is good to see new threads but, as we know, the vast majority of action takes place in the replies within a thread.

How nice it would be to sit in one reader and see the activity across multiple forums, replies included. Is it me or RSS or the forum site setting up the feed?

Thanks