RSS feeds - new vs. "sticky"

I think that anything marked "sticky" or "announcement" is being fed as "new" through the RSS. I set my reader to display the 5 newest items from each feed, but they are taken up by the aforementioned posts. Any ideas?

And yes, I need to limit the number of items per feed because I am reading from multiple sites (i.e. Ars Technica, FEMA, etc...) and otherwise it becomes unmanageable. I realize that if there is no other option, I will just remove DC's feeds, but I thought it was neat to have them show on my personal view of our portal at work

i use Maxthon for my browser, and it always says it detects a RSS feed on this page, but it's invalid

I can read the feed with our reader, it just picks the "sticky" announcements as the latest posts

you might grab the RSS on recent topics. That covers all the forums, and in addition doesn't have any sticky(s)

Duh

ops: thanks

...of course, that forces other threads/areas that I may not want to watch. Thanks though

Crosspost to jforum report here: http://www.jforum.net/posts/list/1383.page

Thanks Dru - no biggie though, I was just messing with the feeds. Other feeds work just fine (obviously news feeds don't have sticky posts) such as Ars Technica's.