Great idea. If you're concerned about adding a new forum, there is another possibility. If we were mainly using it to get new members "up to speed", we could just roll all of the stuff Michael mentionined together into a document, and automatically send it out to new subscribers when they register. I'm thinking of "The Aikido Primer" that went out a few years back as an example. That way they'd have a copy on their PC, and it wouldn't necessitate another forum. The info could also be posted in one of the general areas, maybe even as a sticky, in case people access the boards from more than one PC. The only issue I could see is that Guests wouldn't get the mailing, but that sounds to me like an incentive to register. Updates could be posted on the boards; I don't necessarily think they'd need to be resent to everyone. Granted, I'm not sure how much work this would all entail.