A couple of years ago, I had been thinking like you do.

I had seen all these different approaches to online communities, newsgroups, web boards like the German language perl-community.de, Perl Monks and other Wikis and boards...
They have their fans, and each of them likes the way his favored thing works and looks and feels.

So I thought, we have it all there. There's LWP, there's Net:NNTP, there's WWW::Mechanize.
So (almost) all it would need to be perfect is a common data format and lossless converters, right?

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I was thinking about culture then, and dropped the plan =)

Cheers, Sören