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Message: [QUOTE="Paul Boddie, post: 3971904"] I think that the community should try and make people more aware of the options. For example: [URL]http://www.python.org/community/lists/[/URL] [URL]http://wiki.python.org/moin/MailingListsAndNewsgroups[/URL] (These resources need work, of course, and I encourage people to edit the Wiki-based resources and make them better.) Certainly, it's possible to read existing discussion venues - to avoid the overloaded term "forum" ;-) - using Web browsers, and I've seen Nabble promoted in some communities for this very purpose when people wanted to set up a "Web forum" because they didn't like mailing lists. I find Web forums inefficient, often full of "low-density" content (which then clogs up search results), and many of them give the impression that they won't be around for very long anyway. That said, there can still be understandable reasons why people want to have such forums, not limited to cultivating a small-scale community with an emphasis on getting to know others who are at the same level of expertise, typically with a social dimension that probably seems superfluous to those of us who use comp.lang.python and prefer that the discussion mostly remains focused on the topic of the group. Paul [/QUOTE]