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I'm going to strongly assume you are making the point that "howlers" are just as common within chats as they are in forums. Otherwise I may feel slightly disturbed by this comment...There's also a forum dynamic that's nicely illustrated at http://www.flamewarriorsguide.com/warriorshtm/howlers.htm. Sometimes it's not YOU at all, but rather than you're dredging up a subject that's already been beaten to death.
I agree that it would be nice to chat to individual players without the need to use the mail system. That would be a much better way to communicate with neighbours and potential trade partners. So far no one has ever responded to my mails (and I've sent out several). Perhaps I'm just unlucky though.
Discussing such matters in a global chat could get very confusing and chaotic especially when considering that we have no current means of stating where we are within the world map (like coordinates for example).