[Sage] Sage doesn't update "properly"

[Robin (UK)]

Hi

First thanks for Sage.  I really couldn't figure out how to get RSS working in Firefox before!

However, Sage still seems to have a key weakness compared to the IE7 functionality.  This is the failure of the feed reader to update feed titles automatically.

In Options>Settings the "Automatically update feed titles" option is checked.  However the list does not update automatically, ever, but needs to be manually updated.  This is made worse because even then there seems to be a delay.  IE7 updates almost immediately but Sage takes a while and I have to wait a few minutes after posting entries to my blog to see that the changes have been registered in the reader (I'm just checking through the functionality of my site.)

I don't understand why there is an option for Automatic updating if it doesn't work so I must have something wrong somewhere.

Secondly, even when marked as read, all the "feeds" (the changes made since the site or "feed" was last visited)  remain listed rather than just new ones.

Any help gratefully received.

Kind regards

~ Robin

p.s. Any help with nomenclature would be appreciated.  In order to be able to communicate less clumsily about all this I need to have different labels for: 
  1.. the code that generates the "feed"
  2.. the information contained in the "feed"
  3.. the display of the "feed" in the feed reader
  4.. the individual elements of the "feed", the separate items that are new or have been modified
I "know" that the feed is the information delivered by a site to a feed reader but that seems a clumsy definition as the four discrete parts of this information transmission process are listed above. For instance: consider the sentence: "I had to delete feed: from the feed so that the feed can now be read by the feed reader and the feed titles updated by the feed along with the individual feed titles. However the feed still doesn't update the feed reader so that feed titles and the titles of the feeds are shown as updated".  There must be a better way!!

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