Alright. Merely out of annoyance of the goings on within this thread I have decided to respond.
First off, I think a forum would be useful merely for archiving reasons. I can honestly say I have no idea what is available for forums and options they can have. But, a forum which could potentially have the capabilities of a search engine, and the possibility for someone to respond to a thread and then have the response sent to both the forum and the mailing list at the same time would be beneficial. IMO. I personally, do not use forums anymore. I have found them slow, and the ones I have used haven't been very good at blocking spam. I PERSONALLY prefer email, but that is JUST ME. I cannot speak for anyone else, and neither should anyone else. Although, if I were wanting to search for a thread of some sort I would probably use it for that purpose. Something I have no interest in now, may just very well become of interest to me a year from now. Therefore, I feel archives/forums in that sense can be very useful. I do not think it is fair to criticize an idea. If one person thinks it may be useful, then there is probably others out there that would feel the same way. Now to say.. due to the general responses from the list, having a forum is a bad idea is just silly. Only time will tell how well the forum really does, and it may even be surprising to some what the results may be. If someone is willing to put the forum together, then that is amazing. And thank you to whoever wishes to contribute such things to CLUG. I didn't respond earlier to this thread because I felt all the issues about a forum had already come up, and there is no point in flooding the list with thoughts and opinions already shared. Replacing one with the other is pure silliness as well. Why? Because there is obviously alot of people using the list, and to force people to do something else would more likely then not create alot of readers to lose interest merely due to time restraints. Besides, whose to say everyone uses graphical based applications?! Options & Choices is the key! So therefore, create a forum. If there's people who don't want to use it, then don't use it. Plain and Simple!!!! There's no need to go telling others that because you wont use it, it should not exist. That is just unfair to those who just might find it useful after all and may or may not be currently present on this list. ie. future members Alright, now that I have got that out of my system. Good evening! Regards, Mahlah Hansen
