I'm getting lots of negative feedback from people who want to use email to discuss stuff, when I'm asking them to work via forums.
My proposal is to make some clean integration between forums and email:
1. A checkbox option on all forum threads 'Watch this thread?'
2. All forum threads where a user posts to are automatically watched.
3. A watched thread sends email for all new posts to the user's address.
4. The user can reply to these emails, and these replies are processed as thread posts.
I think there are other areas where simpler (not via RSS) email integration is desirable but the forums are the main area I see today.





