It would loose me, because a forum is 1000 times less efficient than a list. I still look for evidence that there is any advantage of a forum over a list and didn't find any. (Unless I lurk once a year, which wouldn't qualify for being an active member of a community...)
Please explain what is more efficient with a forum? (to build up a single page in a browser it needs at least 10 time longer than my e-mail client, I can't read and answer offline, to name the two deal killers of a forum...)
A FUDforum would actually allow both together, but there seem to be difficulties to set it up easily/properly...
my 2 cents ;)
Stefan
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