Hi Dimytro,
How usable are those two forum formats for slow internet connections? One
thing about yahoogroups, even for high speed internet, is the way they force
you to view ads (for non-email usage) makes it so cumbersome and annoying,
coupled with the lack of indexed threading, that one visits yahoogroups only
under duress. The googlegroups looks like it might take care of the
threading issue, and maybe they have a less intrusive and annoying way of
showing ads.
The other message board format you listed below is structured better to
organize topics cleanly, and has some advantages such as allowing moderators
to move threads around. So for example the especially valuable threads can
be moved into an FAQ group for future generations to view.
Is it still common for email members to not have web access anymore? This
email list format is truly cumbersome and outmoded, and we should abandon it
as soon as it's feasible.

-fk

-----Original Message-----
From: Pali@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Pali@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of oselok
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:37 PM
To: Pali@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Pali] Re: A proposal

Hello, Pali friends,

Speaking about the ways to structure the discussion: there's a good
example of International Dhamma Lekhara Association - a site for
Buddhist Dhamma translators.

One component is an on-line forum http://www.idla.co.nr/

and another one is a Google group
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/IDLA/about

With metta,
Dmytro Ivakhnenko