At 08:48 AM 16-01-00 -0800, you wrote:

>b) The aforementioned forum is up and running for quite a while and it *is*
>dedicated to InterBase, though not IBDI. As a matter of fact, I got to IBDI
>site by reading Sebastian's message.
>c) Sebastian is a great IB developer (check out his AOLServer IB driver, ACS
>port, etc).
>
>Now the forum you suggested had a one mailto: link which assumes someone on
>the receiving end has to read the messages, filter them and post the
>relevant stuff. I think the automated system already in place is much
>better.
>
>Syarzhuk

As you will have read on the IDBI forum page (if you read it) the current
presentation is temporary - it's awaiting the application we're building on
the interbase2000.org page.

IB-Topics is not a newsgroup-type of forum - as you'll read, specific questions
are posted for response. There are about 50 of them, which have been
compiled from the most commonly-asked questions on the public lists
and newsgroup i.e. the public is not being asked to submit questions and
start threads. It's intended to grow this into an FAQ. It will
be database-based.

Don't think I'm suggesting Seb should stop his forum - far from it. It's
an excellent thing if the issues are being debated. The point I was
making was that it's an unlinked site. We can easily fix that; but
unless the people running that site choose to look for a way to
feed discussion back here, it's a cul-de-sac. As I said, your choice.

Helen