Low level stuff…
Not sure if you have considered this but it would be handy to receive notification of new messages here, directly through an RSS reader of our choice.
Firefox and Thunderbird for instance, accept RSS feeds. Effectively turning any update on a site or forum into something like an email link / message that appears in your RSS reader. Pretty handy.
KVR for instance allows their members to subscribe to RSS feeds for any of their forums.
If you would be interested in this kind of thing for the Zynewave forums then here are a few starting points.
I only did a few searches but these seem to be good starting points…
Feed for all (seems very popular with Cnet members)
http://www.download.com/FeedForAll/3260-20_4-6264741.html
A very large choice here I think some are free but may not have user ratings…
http://allrss.com/rsseditors.html
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