That's quite a bit more in depth than I was thinking. I was pretty much ignoring the complaints about "noise" on the mailing because.. to me.. even the "noise" is the community.

All I thought was needed was a medium that makes forums posts from the mailing lists.. and sends emails to the mailing list from forum post. (something like NNTP I think) No need to filter anything because as far as I'm concerned it all the community. Mailing list people love their mailing lists because they can filter ... well.. filter "Orange Box". *shrug*

I really don't think we need something that would nearly be someone's full time job just so a handful of people on either end of the spectrum can keep their special 'tools'.