AVR-Chat

>   A simple solution:  don't participate.  I am offering a parallel
> service, not an alternative to this mailing list.  I find that direct,
> realtime interaction is sometimes more satisfying than email exhanges.
> It is toward that experience that my project is aimed.  No interest in
> "competing" with this, or any other forum.

I understand what you are saying, but the major down side to this is that the 
rest of the community fail to benefit from the running log that is produced by 
email.  A lot of problems for a lot of people are solved by watching the 
transactions of another person having the same issue.

Cheers

Don