How To read RSS Feeds using Mozilla Thunderbird

I have been using Thunderbird for a long time and had been using it just to read the mails offline. But lately i have been into blogging and have seen so many RSS feeds but the only problem was i could not subscribe to them- I could have used Live Bookmarks facility in FireFox but thats not appealing. So i thought of switching to Thunderbird for the same. So with a brief overview on RSS feeds and Thunderbird i will show how to configure Thunderbird for receiving RSS Feeds.

What is RSS?

In simple term RSS is a Web content syndication format. Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
Some sample RSS Feeds:
java.net Weblogs
Mozilla Blog

What is Thunderbird?
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

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