One of the problems with the Blog is that people sometimes leave questions as comments that really do not apply to the posted topics.  Here anyone can join this group and leave questions and messages to which I and others can respond.  I suppose this is really more a discussion group than a traditional messageboard. 

 

If the matter is sufficiently important, I can then copy the topics and post them to the Blog.

 

I had an ezboard messageboard years ago and it disappeared when the company dropped free accounts.  A lot of good information was lost and I have shied away from messageboards every since; however, they serve a purpose better than a Blog in regards to non-topical or miscellaneous questions (from others).