Jeremy--
Well, it looks to me that each of these two things would increase community:
1. Making the threads themselves visible on search engines and directories will attract more people, some of whom will want to stay around and become part.
If you make it hard to find the community, you make it hard to grow the community. No?
2. Making the forums accessible by e-mail is also bound to increase the sense of community. Why does anyone have to "come" anyplace for there to be community in cyberspace? None of us leave our desks either way.
And if we can make it easier for the person who uses primarily e-mail, then we increase the universe of those who can be part of our community.
That said, it is not my point to argue whether it would or not. Simply to say let's have at least a rudimentary tool available for the e-mail access (I have been pretty well convinced I don't need or want the removal of the "?"s), so those who want to try it can do so and let the rest of us know if it works or not.... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
:-Doug.
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