From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:23:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:23:42 -0500 Received: from falcon.vispa.uk.net ([62.24.228.11]:54025 "EHLO falcon.vispa.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:23:41 -0500 Message-ID: <3E21ECC2.1040404@walrond.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:31:30 +0000 From: Andrew Walrond User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Moderated forum for linux-kernel X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Forgive if this has been discussed before, but has anyone considered hosting the linux-kernel on a web-based forum as used extensively elsewhere? I can think of advantages; Better Thread organisation and seperate topic areas for drivers, patches, ide, ... Being able to cheery pick threads of interest, and completely ignore others Not having to dump your inbox after a week away just to catch up Moderated forums (Off-topic threads policed and deleted) Read only forums (write for registered/invited members) I'm sure somebody will enlighten me regarding the disadvantages. :) Andrew