I totally concur with Lea (which happens with amazing regularity). We have discussed this matter in the past (along with creating online fora to move some of the newbie stuff off the list) but the general consensus was that this was and still is the best way to do it to cover all levels.
If you'd like to use a forum environment, take a look at the stuff over at Port80 in Perth. http://www.port80.asn.au/forums/ Let's not complain about the lower-end traffic if we're not injecting the higher-end topics ourselves. So, let's talk about XML/XSLT, SVG, what's happening with AJAX etc. (see http://www.w3.org/2005/07/05-tagmem-minutes.html#item03 for a thought starter, at least to see some of the W3 process on emergence). P > I like the concept, but my experience of multiple lists for the one > group is that posts are constantly made on the 'wrong' list, driving > everyone mad, or some of the lists simply aren't used - look at this > group. Demand drove the creation of the CMS list, but its traffic is > minimal. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************