I've found that I simply don't get on very well with the "weblog way" of doing things. But I still want to post lots of stuff online in a timely manner. And I spend *lots* of time in email clients.

A long time ago, I postulated the idea of "emailblogs", essentially an application or service that offers people Blogger-level simplicity for setting up and maintaining a weblog style site via email:

http://gorjuss.com/luvly/20011211-emailblogs.html

For me, posting to the web from an email message is the perfect blend of simplicity and ease of use. I am never far from an email client. And it makes creating posts offline very easy.

My luvly mailing list *has* become a weblog, of sorts, on my homepage:

http://gorjuss.com

... the most recent posts appear there automagically. I send stuff to a specified address with info in the subject line in the following format:

username:password:filename.html//Title of post

Software written by my friend Matt Hunt (http://arghh.org) then converts the text in the message body into a web page using the filename I've specified (this gets round the problem you identified of mailing list archiving tools creating unreadable URLs). The look and feel can be controlled by standard style sheets.

The software then forwards the message, stripped of everything before (and including) the "//" in the subject line, to a bog-standard Mailman mailing list.

That way, with one post from an email client, I update my web site and send stuff to the list at the same time.

For me, it's perfect, although I can see it won't appeal to everyone.

It's always surprised me that there's not more demand for "emailblog" type tools.