have you considered a real time chat?

Umm, not really as right now the traffic isn't high enough, though I won't discount that possibility in the future. Plus I have other things with the site that I'd like to do first.

You are old enough to remember what a BBS and sysop are, right???

Of course. In high school I was a big enough geek that I even ran a BBS. But don't tell anyone. :)-dr