I've wondered if there might be room for services that use email as their communication channel. Something like this would be perfect for it. The forges would

I've wondered if there might be room for services that use email as their communication channel. Something like this would be perfect for it. The forges would send emails to communicate in issues, information is distributed via mailing lists, but forges parse and display the information in their own way. They become fancy single-purpose email clients basically. With such a system, people could also contribute by writing the same emails by hand, as long as the format remains accessible. And no special protocols necessary, all existing mailing list infrastructure can be used instead of designing new complicated ways of doing the same thing.