An email list allows people to correspond in close to real time,
while still being able to edit their posts prior to sending; they cannot
edit
their posts on an IRC (or otherwise their points will inevitably get lost in
the volume of IRC chatter), and they cannot correspond in close to real
time on a BBS (due to the increased difficulty entailed in both reading
prior posts and responding to them).
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