>Feel free to make some sort of logical point in support of the e-mail field. Any day now.

It's tradition! The Japanese boards have it, so it must be logical and right!! You must hate Japanese people and want to put them all in camps again if you don't like the email field!!! Why, it wouldn't be in the nebulous mythical chan spirit which we can nevereverever deviate from to not have an email field!!!!

(sigh)