I'm not a fan of IRC too old and clunky(not to mention I find it extemely hard to follow multiple conversations. NNTP is old and outdated as well and I'm not a fan of subscribing to Yahoo Groups. And Maillists keep clogging up my mail box, but a lot of discussions go on there, so I use them. I believe the maillists were originally for users to communicate problems with the developers, which is the easiest way for developers to keep up. Personally, I prefer WebForums, but their only downfall(which a lot of people don't like) is you have to keep checking the site for new posts, or set alerts to notify you of updates to topics or new topics. I know the FedoraForum.org website has some way where they've incorporated a couple newgroups into their forum http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=50 They probably set a email address up to catch newgroup posts and filter them directly into the database. -- Matt Shields http://masnetworks.biz http://www.centos.org http://www.caosity.org On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:45:39 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:40 -0500, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > > I guess my problem with web forums is that I believe (a) nntp is > > already the best solution for discussion systems, and (b) I remember > > usenet when it was a more civilised place... before the dark times, > > before the spam. > > the dark times will never go away. Web forums suck - but usenet is dead, > long live email. > > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >