[joanneraks]

About the groups vs. forum type discussions - I think Shimarella mentioned this in another thread, but I'll echo what she said here: I also enjoy just reading all sorts of stuff about whatever is going on, and would miss it if alot of topics got diverted to specific group discussions. I'm imagining that the Group discussions will work great for region-specific topics, though. Which is how they seem to be organized so far. I guess I'm hoping that people will still let the rest of us in on their discussions. Like the "teacher" group for example: I'm not a teacher, and don't ever plan on being one, but I still like to read teacher talk. So I'm hoping there will still be lots of teacher talk on the regular forum. Same goes for other stuff.