Quote Originally Posted by vagif
And last point. News servers are indexed by google !!
This gives you much wide audience. Millions of java developers search newsgroups on google to find answers to their problems and questions.
By hosting this forum on news server, you quickly get attention and awareness of thousands of newbees and people intrested in solving their particular problems.

Let's port this forum to news server, while it is not too late. )
Unfortunatley, most (public) newsgroups seem to have become a mechanism for spammers to harvest new email addresses, which has made a lot of support newsgroups (ie. Eclipse) require registration. At that point, you lose the Google indexing...