I've said it before, but Perlmonks (not just Perlmonks, but most "webboards") is a reinvention of Usenet, but with a far worse interface.
Odd .. I like the presentation of Perl Monks way better than comp.lang.perl.misc, and I vastly prefer the signal to noise ratio here -- no spam, no PurlGurl/Godzilla (or whatever s/he's called now), lots of code samples, Q&A .. maybe I've misunderstood your comment.