AVR-Chat

> 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.

If a IRC channel is started then someone could have an eggdrop bot who
logs all of the typed text.  Then have the bot put the log on the web.
 It wouldn't be too hard actually.