Creating a wwwthreads<->email gateway would enable wwwthreads to be utlized in many other scenarios, such as Mailman lists, internal customer support feedback, and a generalized gatewaying mechanism to archive messages.
As for sending files to groups of users, well... perhaps that might be tunable in the administrative options (to prevent abuse). :-)
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