Web forums vs mailing list (was Re: minor list changes)

[Jay West]

Someone wrote...
>> But it would also be cool to have machine- and topic- specific forums.

Ok, I'll settle this. Not because of being dictatorial, but because this 
issue has come up many times before and the classiccmp communitity has 
already spoken on the subject...

There won't be machine and topic specific forums. This has been discussed 
before and roundly trounced as an option. Most list members prefer to see 
topics applying to all computers - otherwise they may miss good discussions 
of restoration techniques, etc. that originate on a particular hardware 
sublist.

The same thing applies for weblogs, wiki's, and web forums. The membership 
as a whole has always been against this (and not that it matters, but I 
agree). IF the membership at large does want a wiki/web interface, I'll set 
one up on the classiccmp server, as it wouldn't make sense to have it 
processed across the wire.

Jay