Hello Mark,
I'm so sorry, if e-mail asking, some people doesn't participate at forum as comment.
It's a town's website with a lot of people not very young who are not very confortable with the internet idea and a litle afraid giving personnal information as e-mail, just for post something on a forum. It's easy on comment so they participate. It's necessary that they participate at the forum too. The asking personnal e-mail is a participation deceleration.
Sorry Mark, asking e-mail, I understand it must be important fort the majority, but not for this website. So sorry about that.
"you can't remove the e-mail because e-mail is required" : Please, is it possible to desactivate that ? Or definitely not ?
Excuse me to insist and for my terrible english
Best regards