I'll put it into programming terms for ya, Ancient

RSS feeds are always a FIFO list of items with new items being pushed onto the top and old items being popped from the bottom.
However, if you browse the C++ forum, for example, the listing of threads in there (based on the last time a post was made into the thread) would sort threads in random order. Something in position #5 could suddenly jump to position #1 when replied to, for example. Therefore, RSS feeds are always based on new items, not updated items, and are a list of new threads created.
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