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> Such a thing exists, as pointed out by others on this thread. The 
> *community* has already voted with their feet: few people visit the fora 
> while many subscribe to the lists. Corporate meritocracy aside, that means 
> (let me spell it out for you) that most people prefer the mailing list. 
> Hence, community preference. Of course, as part of this community you are 
> free to promote an existing message board or start another; what success 
> you will have is impossible to predict accurately until/unless you actually 
> try. But you *are* free to try.

	FWIW, we have a fairly active Fedora forum at LinuxQuestions.org:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?forumid=35

> I particularly prefer mailing lists since I frequently go through 500 or so 
> messages at a time on planes, in airports, and while waiting for others who 
> are late for meetings. Having to go online to consult fora would eliminate 
> easily 80% of my time spent here, effectively eliminating any use *I* get 
> out of this community and also any help I provide to others (which 
> hopefully is non-trivial).

	I've looked at adding an email<->forum gateway to LQ.  It's 
certainly a technical possibility, but the demand so far has not been 
sufficient to implement it.  If this changes in the future I'd be happy to 
revisit the issue.

--jeremy



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