[ic] Regret

[Sandy Thomson]

Matt Johnson wrote:

>I was talking about the features that  come with a forum.  That a
>mailing list couldnt possibly have.  Ever.
>  
>

The only extra forum features I can think of are avatars, images and 
forced html.
These are forum negatives in my opinion, and would not be useful at all 
in the context of interchange.

A mailing list gives you everything else, such as searchable messages, 
banning users etc, and is more convenient for a community member to use 
(not having to go to a website and hogging resources, for instance).