[WikiEN-l] forum instead of mail

[Erik Moeller]

> I think that we should use a web-based forum instead
> of email. Forums are much more organised and don't
> clutter your inbox. They also eliminate problems with
> different email clients (like the whole "wrap your
> text" thing), as well as signing letters. I set up a
> free (and ad-free) hosted forum at
> wikipedia.proboards19.com to test out swithching to a
> forum, but if it suits you better to download forum
> software for www.wikipedia.org instead, it's probably
> better that way anyway. There could be a link to the
> forum from the main page to increase awareness of it
> (many people don't know of the mailing list, and there
> is no way to link to it.) Some people think this
> mailing list is exclusive and only for sysops and the
> like.

No.
See these two long threads:
http://pliny.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-May/010033.html
http://pliny.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2003-May/010047.html

Regards,

Erik