Hi Robert, First off, I can sympathize with your idea. Users being able to casually drop in on a list with a minimum amount of hassle, e.g. not subscribing for firing up a news reader, a web-based forum makes sense.
However, as you can see, I don't think Apache will ever move away from email lists, for all of the great reasons that have already been posted. So, my suggestion is that given that email lists and web forums do the same root function (allowing people to communicate in an asynchronous, threaded post/reply manner), why not investigate using/building a web-based front end for the email lists? Then all of the old-school developers/users can keep the great means of communication that drives Apache but easily browsing/posting from a web browse could still be available to the casual user. Eyebrowse has made a great start of being a better mail archive interface, e.g. with thread support, searching, and the like, but it is not nor tries to be a forum-like interface. Given their existing functionality of reading in mbox or what not email, if you really feel passionately about this web-forum thing (which you must to bring up the topic again), either join the Eyebrowse community or start your own extension to it that implements a convential forum interface. - Stephen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
