>> I keep hearing about the desire to provide a drive-through
>> anonymous
>> spamming...oops, I mean "comments" section. :-)  While
>> I agree with the
>> idea in principle, I firmly believe that the mailing lists
>> are the best
>> place for discussion if for no other reason than the Email
>> addresses in
>> use by posters are guaranteed to be valid, thereby
>> reducing/eliminating
>> spam.  Also, we would need at least two people who
>> would be willing to
>> check the comments section daily to remove spam and
>> essentially moderate
>> any discussion/postings present there.
>>
>> If there is sufficient interest on the maintenance end then
>> technically it
>> is not hard to create such a commenting system.  I
>> simply don't want to
>> see another failed forum attempt due to lack of support.
>
> I think I'm the instigator of that idea. :) I don't want the process to become burdensome. I realize people need to review anonymous postings, possibly several times a day. Several people need to be on the team to share the load and I don't know that we have that capacity. I still like the idea but I vote to delay the idea until after R14 and then reopen for discussion.

For dealing with spam: there are antispam methods. My choice is
Akismet. It really worked for me. Besides it would be only a a news
commenting that is allowed to be done by anons.
Everything else (like new user registering) would be done by admin,
and I think only people involved with trinity should have access.

And even if you had problems with forum, it doesn't mean we will have
them with website. Website is actually really easier to maintain than
forum.