* landed support for reading topics and posting followup messages to a topic -

the basis of the conferencing engine is now firmly in place
* tweaks to the HTML Checker to make it better at breaking lines without
  leaving stranded punctuation at the beginning or end of a line
* also modified dictionary to better handle possessives and hyphenates
* as always, miscellaneous tweaks and bugfizes as I spot them

doc/design-goals.html

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 	  <LI>Output uses XML and gets formatted into [X]HTML via XSLT; "themeable"/"skinnable" interface</LI>
 	  <LI>Conferencing/other functionality available via XML-RPC or SOAP calls</LI>
 	  <LI>News page creation (see Slash, Squishdot, Scoop)</LI>
-	  <LI>Member trust metrics (see Slashdot "karma," Scoop "mojo," Advogato distributed trust metric)</LI>
+	  <LI>Member trust metrics (see Slashdot "karma," Scoop "mojo," Advogato distributed trust metric) <B><EM>(Feature indefinitely shelved at the request of the EMinds community)</EM></B></LI>
 	  <LI>User diary pages (see Advogato, Kuro5hin)</LI>
 	  <LI>Moderated discussions (see Slash, Scoop)</LI>
 	  <LI>Collaborative database facility (see Wiki, Everything2)</LI>