What if there is some kind of a server side plugin that allows a newsreader to connect? See, the solution of using a generic crawler does not help much, as I primarily care about not having to load continuously all the nav stuff and headers and footers. Are there any AJAXy forum systems that would load the content in the background allowing quick nav? RSS feeds tend to not contain all the threading type layout making them hard to read in mass.

I am wondering if anyone knows of a program that will in some form crawl a forum and download the posts kind of like a newsgroup client. I frequent many forums, but get frustrated at how long each individual page load takes and the inefficiency of browsing them in a browser. Does such a program exist? If not, does any one have an idea on how to create one?