Are we ****ing kidding?
A firm NO from me on ECL+ races for PCs.
We started out SRD only, and for a reason, which I hoped was game balance. WTF, people don't think halflings, elves, dwarves, etc. are good enough anymore?
In fact, if the idea of LEW is just to build Monte Haul - Munchkin World, I'm out of here.
It's lazy and unbalanced, is why, and I would still hope that we're interested in building a balanced campaign setting. Instead of actually adventuring, putting in the time, and gaining levels, we've got people who would self-whack their PCs just so they could come back with their half-dragon sorceror or whatever. I'm not interested in playing with such characters, or DMing them.
But if I have to DM them, I'll have to be WAY interested in making sure said characters don't overpower the whole party, and throw it out of whack. That's less fun for the "mortal" (i.e., reasonable) characters, or I could take the easy way out and just concentrate the attack on that character first, every battle. Maybe once I drop him, the rest of the PCs can just have a nice, regular battle!
You know, there's a whole general PbP Forum on here where people can run their half-dragon svirfneblin monks with unlimited resurrections or whatever they want. And it's a big board, so they should be able to find people who think that way, and have a nice game.
I don't get why we have to ruin LEW with that, however, unless it's an ego thing, and that's even less attractive.