pretty, pretty please? 
Fairly confident that would go in the “Destroys our bandwidth” catagory.
I’m going to check it a million times a day one way or another… 
alterego, thanks for your suggestion.
Offering RSS feeds would require modding the forumhome template and/or forumdisplay.php, and therefore it’s unlikely to happen.
Although this would be a great way to feed the boards to handheld devices.