>Don't get me wrong, I love the PIC List and have gotten a lot of
>great advice on here, but wouldn't a forum be much easier to use?

 No !!!!

>Think about it, all posts would be displayed as easy to read "threads"
>on the forum, no bounced emails (I have this problem for some reason),
>easy search capability (and a lot faster than the archive), etc..

No !!!!!!

>It seems to me like it would be advantageous to hold these
>discussions on a forum!

No!!!!!!

Forums are a pain to use - I have to 'go get' the messages. The Piclist 
delivers messages to my desktop, and I can read them as I have gaps in other 
things happening.

I am a member of the microchip forum, and only go there when I have a 
problem that needs solving, which I can't get solved here! You still have to 
look down the 'messages since last visit' for interesting new ones that 
might relate to what I am doing, or specifically go to the particular 
subjects of interest at the moment, but whatever one does, it is a pain. Yes 
I can get a notification about an answer to a message of mine, but I don't 
particularly want a notification for every new message in any subject (can 
it do that?) - if doing that the message in toto may as well be delivered 
the way the Piclist does. 

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