if someone can share his workflow regarding browsing the content of the forum. i tired google reader but it has no threaded view so not good. thunderbird seems ok, it has the threaded view and some basic search capablity.
what im missing:

i understand i can edit the feed to fetch more articlesmessages.
like the default is
http://www.cycling74.com/forums/atom.php?mode=m&l=1&n=10&basic=1
and to fetch a 100 you change it to
http://www.cycling74.com/forums/atom.php?mode=m&l=1&n=100&basic=1
but it seems that 100 is the limit, so i cant use it as an archive if what google reader tells me is correct the average amount of messages on the "all included" feed is 300~ a week, so if i’m not logged in for a couple of days i start loosing messages. correct?

also, how tocan i post to the list via thunderbird?