Issues and Problems

Of course there are some "buts".  So here are the ones that I have come across so far:

Issues

• People using a mailinglist to publish on a blog need to be aware that whatever they write will be published. (you can of course run an "internal" / privat / intranet blog as well)
  
• Email is send and forget.  Blogposts can be edited,but you need to have access rights to edit the blog. So editing is likely to be the job of the admin.
• Mailing lists tend to have signatures including links to edit the mailing list settings or to unsubscribe.  Those signatures reveal the name of the list.  They also might include links to the service provider such as Yahoo Groups.
• Lack of an email tagging / classification standard.
  
• Copyright? Terms and Conditions?  A internet minefield...

Problems

• Formatting - Blogger doesn't like the Yahoo Groups formatting of the body.  Seems to be a CSS incompability between the two which is cutting of the text on the right.
• The author name is the one linked to the email address.  The blog therefore posts always the same author regardless of the writer of the email.  That is in my opinion a problem and not simply an issue, because normal readers do not know who posted what.  The nice thing about blogging is the personalisation of publishing.

This has been written sending it to the generic email address rather than the mailing list to avoid problem number one :-(