I think we are largely going nowhere, here, questions should be serialized. the problem is not "why should we have a forum", but "what work will a forum give to the corps" if no work, we _must_ have one. we must have all and any interface needed by say... a handfull of users. so work??? The work involved in creating the forum, and making it run on a server is nearly nothing, given any time. the real work is _moderation_ so the real problem is * should we have moderation? * is the answer is yes, should it be done by a corp? ans only these two questions needs discussion. as long as I know, the present list is _not_ moderated, so why moderate a forum/newsgroup? looking at a wiki is far more difficult than looking at a forum and we do. if you think a moderation is necessary, why not give this to a community member? may be the one who asks for a forum? an "a posteriori" moderation should be largely sufficient (canceling of offending posts if any) anyway, the answers at these questions should be given an written on the wiki of course, if moderation is mandatory and can be done only by corps there will be no forum and discussion ends... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Quelques images: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html