Hi Mary! I've been away from Catsailor.com for a while, but I never let my subscription to the paper edition run out . . . The new forum looks great! With the regatta season about to crank up, we've been upgrading our club web site to give our members more "ownership" over our online presence . . . Catsailor.com's forums are our main inspiration! To finally get around to answering your question . . . Newsreader programs like NetNewsWire use RSS feeds, a specially-formatted version of the web pages, to let the user check the news quickly from his or her favorite forums and weblogs. I'm pretty sure UBB.threads supports an RSS feed; it may just not be turned on for the Cat Sailor. It's kind of a geek thing, but I find it real handy.