Let us worry about how the printed docs come about, that's part of our job. The Discussion Group interface Some people don't like the Discussion Group interface, but I do, because I see it differently. It's not at all like a mail list. It's a web interface into our content management system. This is a very popular idea for a lot of good reasons.
Web browsers are ubiquitous and convenient.
And we have an XML-RPC interface in the works that connects from the DG to the new Frontier 6 outliner, so you lose no fidelity in editing tools, in fact you gain quite a lot. Think of the DG as a framework for group writing for a web presence you'll get the idea of what we're doing. We're developing new software for you and your teams. And if you don't like the interface, cook your own. Make it work thru email.