Re: Lua forum is down - once again

[Eike Decker <eike@...>]

> The simple reason is that lua-users and lua.org are both hosted on a web
> host (Pepperfish) which refuses to host PHP sites due to the inherent
> danger and hideous security issues presented by attempting to maintain a
> PHP installation.

Ok, that sounds reasonable.

> If a good forums program were found which was implemented in python,
> ruby, perl, or perhaps more appropriately, Lua, then I'm sure we could
> get it going.

Would be great.

On what other wrote: I didn't want to start a "is the mailing list better than a
forum" discussion, I simply wondered why the forum is not hosted on the
"official" website. 

Eike