[kastorff]

We're never gonna come up with a organizational plan that suits everyone. The problem with a server forum is that it blurs the organizational plan already in place. It's not whether or not a server forum would suit some situations...it clearly would. It's about whether a server forum would suit a large number of situations, and it doesn't. We're trying to balance having the forums structure be simple enough to maintain, but discrete enough to be useful. It's like standing on a razor blade. Whatever we do is gonna hurt some dynamic in favor of another. We have members using both NNTP clients and web clients, and additional complexity favors neither when one looks carefully at what's gonna work best for a mixed environment.