[SamirDarji]

Thank you for your patience and replies. I know how seeing someone use your creation in a skewed manner can be unnerving. I've been there.

To specifically answer some of your questions:

Originally Posted by Cyricx

How do you reply to messages? Users on your board may not be on the yahoo group list.

You don't. We don't want to reply. This is just "read-only" for staff.

Originally Posted by Cyricx

All the messages will appear to come from the same exact person.

Doesn't matter. All we care about is the content inside the message.

Originally Posted by Cyricx

If messages are editted or email chains deleted from the yahoo group, they will not be deleted on your forum. So you have massive information discrepancies there as well.

That's fine. This is all just information that we're going to be reading. If it gets outdated in a week, it really doesn't matter.

In the explanation of how I was planning to have groups' messages posting to a forum, I completely forgot to explain how the forum users would use it. The quick answer is--the forum users won't.

We do not reply to the groups' lists. We are subscribed to find out what the group is doing since they don't disseminate the information by other means (web site, traditional forum, etc.). The EI forum would only be visible to forum staff. The staff can view the messages posted from the group. They can't reply and can't post. That's the extent of the use of the EI forum.

So that's the why. Now, the question is the how. In theory, would the system which I described above work?