Blog as Discourse

I'm already noticing that the lack of an RSS feed for the blog comments makes the level of discourse very impoverished. I was about to reply to one of Steven's comments when I realized ... how will he know that I replied?

I've seen many complaints on other blogs when people don't have an RSS feed for comments as well as their main page. I know for myself that since I use the RSS feeder in Mozilla Thunderbird, I don't have enough use for a program like WebMon anymore (which monitors websites for changes at user-defined intervals).

I'm guessing I have to graduate to a PHP-enabled site to effectively create RSS feeds for comments anyway. This low-tech Verizon site doesn't qualify.