>Yes, I agree regarding proprietary software and/or community forums such as UT. However, I was talking about Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). Many projects such as Lua and Ruby on Rails are FOSS. The Lua project even offers links to 3rd-party mail archive readers: http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html
>
>I believe your point does not apply to FOSS software/projects.

I see.

>I agree that moderation is a useful feature of a list or forum. These days, unmoderated equals spam or worse. But, in my limited experience, lists are typically moderated and the signal-to-noise ratio is quite good.

I would have to see about that. Do you have any contact of who's in charge over there. One issue is to associate a message to a member on this site. Assuming such option would be available, it would mean all related messages will fall into a place holder account. But, then again, it means that the member of the foreign site who posted the message won't be able to know that there is a continuity of his message on this site.

But, this is all based on assumptions. There is a lot of issues to consider here.