[KLUG Members] have we ever considered running a forum?

[Adam Williams]

> >It should not be construed that I am in favor of moving to forums, but rather 
> >I was just raising some of the possible pluses. Personally, I prefer an email 
> >list because just about any wireless device out there has email support, 
> >whereas web browsing on a handheld device rather stinks, IMO. And wireless is 
> >important around here. :)
> I neither support or oppose forums as such, but I tend to think that as a LUG 

I'm not opposed to running a forum, but I am opposed to any division of
them community (intentional or not).  I'd only be in favor of a system
that transposed mail messages to forum, from the forum to the mail
stream, etc...  So an NNTP gateway makes best sense, with possibly a web
interface to the news group for those with NNTP tools/know-how.

> I think the use of stuff like PHPNuke, while very slick and easy to admin,

I don't know anything about PHPNuke and haven't ever used anything
similair.

> tends to put something of a damping effoect of these characteristics of a 
> group, even in theory. I have use PHPNuke and other tools, not to broaden
> opportunities, but rather to restrict them, and make what has become some-
> thing of a boring and repetitive job easy and simple to do, even at the cost
> of individuality.

I'm skeptical of a need to re-invent the wheel.  There are, IMHO, too
many tools to do the same darn thing.  A well designed package can be
easily extended,  it is just a matter of finding such a package.  Then
those extensions can be contributed back to the project.