what do you think of it Porfiry? Sciforums own RSS feed that would feed the last five (?) threads of the science section. Would be cool and could bring in new members.
of course if that doesn't use a lot of bandwidth (which it probably does)
but anyhow I wanted to list the idea :m:

what is RSS?

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

Would you like to know more? (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html)

Oh, I definitely like that idea. I'm not sure that it would cost that much bandwidth: only plain XML is transmitted: no pictures, no extensive make up.

Let's see: even if a hundred of RSS readers are pulling the page every 10 minutes, and given an RSS page of 10kb (at the moment the size of the RSS page of the national dutch news service (http://www.nos.nl/export/nosnieuws-rss.xml), I suppose that should be good indication of size), that would cost ((6*24*10*100)/1024) about 140.6 MBs per day.

Hm, ok, I stand corrected. It does take up quite some bandwidth.

In all honesty, I've to add that I've no idea if 100 concurrent RSS readers polling sciforums is a realistic number...