So how do those who prefer mail lists see the material posted on 
the forum?  If that material isn't automatically forwarded to the 
appropriate mail list, a large portion of the community will be 
unaware of important topics.  It would seem that the forum would be 
much the poorer without their contributions.

Clint

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, john h outlan wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2011 10:20 AM, "Troy Dawson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/25/2011 09:02 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>
>>> Kevin Thomas writes:
>>>
>>>> « HTML content follows »
>>>> I don't know if everyone was aware of this (I just found out yesterday),
>>>> but there is a forum for Scientific Linux.  It looks like it was created
>>>> fairly recently.  I just wanted to bring it up in case some of you
> prefer
>>>> web forums to mail lists (like me).  The url
>>>> is<URL:http://scientificlinux.proboards.com/index.cgi?>
> http://scientificli
>>>> nux.proboards.com/index.cgi?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe it would be interesting to have some official forums under
>>> scientificlinux.org domain name; these proboard things, they come and
>>> go.
>>>
>>> My 2p
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nux!
>>> www.nux.ro
>>
>>
>> We currently cannot have forum's on the official www.scientificlinux.orgsites.  This is due to the login restrictions that we currently are under.
> This issue is currently being looked at, but is a lower priority than a few
> other items.
>>
>> Troy Dawson
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>
> Hi Troy. I sent you an email about a link to our proboard sl forums. Hope
> you got it. I can assure everyone the forum isn't going to go anywhere
> because I'm the one that started it. I've known the mods for years and they
> won't vanish either :)  I love this mail list, but this just gives us an
> alternative for those that like web forums. The first announcement I made of
> the forum was on this mail list looking for mods. Our own spoovy
> volunteered.   One of the other mods I've known for years is from Czech
> Republic and is a RHEL certified engineer.  Hope to see some of you there,
> but we all will continue to monitor this official mail list of course.
>
> Thanks ....
>