As long as I can download and/or sync my comments elsewhere and have the ability to completely remove my comments from their site, I'm happy. For me the huge p

As long as I can download and/or sync my comments elsewhere and have the ability to completely remove my comments from their site, I'm happy. For me the huge plus is receiving blog comments via email. Currently they are not sending the MessageID in the Reference field so messages aren't showing up as threaded, but they are aware of this. IMO blog comments should be handled like mailing lists/news groups.