Hi all, this discussion (and all the other discussions regarding this topic) seems to come directly from the european parlament: Very very much noise with very very small results. If all decisions around SUSE would be managed this way, we would have now SUSE 0.9 beta. I am reading mailing lists regularly since a long time. Even longer (and still) i read several Usenet groups. And i'm a forumreader too. A NNTP-ML-Forum-Gateway is crap. Because most of the common Forum-Readers would be pissed off by netiquette-discussions, which will come up inevitably started by oldfashioned mailing-list-users. And vice versa. Not to mention (especially german) usenet-users. Each way has its assets and drawbacks, but in no way they are going together. My advice: Set up a forum, look how it is going, and if it is going worse, shut it down. If its going well, all is fine, isnt it? Second advice: Make it clear (for yourself) for what a forum will be mostly used and for what purpose this list is. Is it the same? I dont think so. Sometimes these semi-religious discussions are very boring, good-for-nothing and at least such discussions seems to bind more ressources than to run a forum. regards, Jens PS: All above is IMHO only and not a subject of any higher truth, nevertheless some parts could be provocative. ;)