A lot of new developments in our town are developing yahoo message boards, where rather then gossiping over the back fence and confining inaccurate information to a few homes, the whole development can benefit from the lack of knowledge. It does have merits in that by monitoring the message board I can detect certain problems and step in and fix them. I have one alderman who is in a frenzy to respond to those emails before me, I suspect he will be running against me in a year or so. It's funny when he promises things that he can't deliver without my assistance, make me tempted to not do it. Although that would be counterproductive for the resident, so I can't do that, but I can always think about it.