Re: A PEAR Forum?

Mike, Stan, I think most of what you are searching for is already available. I don't think it would be useful to set up a web forum separate from the mailinglist (dispersing attention and effort). You can receive mails in your inbox via the mailinglist, you can access them as you would do with a newsgroup news://news.php.net/php.pear.general, you can consult and search the mailing list archive both at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-general and http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.pear.general/4939, the only thing I see missing is the ability to post messages via a web interface. There probably are several interactive web interfaces to newsgroups, you could set up one for news://news.php.net/php.pear.general, another very easy option is to set up a "remote" yahoo group for the mailing list, such as http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modperl/. The Midgard user mailing list for example, also has all of the options (mailing list, newsgroup, mail archives and yahoo group): http://www.midgard-project.org/discussion/ (and of course: please consult the pear team http://pear.php.net/credits.php in this, there might be spamming/privacy issues we haven't thought of) pascal van hecke