Steve Vertigo wrote:

The Cunctator wrote:

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Hmm. Maybe a web-based bulletin board which by its nature helps people sort discussions by topic and discourages getting off topic, and which allows for easier reference to the Wikipedia content being discussed?

Just a thought.

I think it may be getting practical --- there seems to be inclreased traffic on the lists -- I still cant figure out why the Village pump isnt run as some kind of threaded chat page. -- even that would be against the purpose of

-- the digests are miserable due to all the metadata, -- the archives are fairly ok to read from -- aside from plain email -- but theres no return form from archives to answer with, and it has an annoying bug of not wrapping unformatted text -- so that LD's and others messages read as a single very long string...

Have you tried using the GMANE ( http://www.gmane.org/ ) interface with a good newsreader? It threads dscussions quite well, and if there is a thread you're not interested, just use the "Ignore" function of your newsreader, and you never have to see it again.

As for a web-based BBS, no thanks. I find browser-based interfaces clunky (alas, it's true for editing articles as well). Also, such a beast can't be used offline, which is a big minus for me.

- Stephen G.