Yes, and as I said, there could be moderators there like on other forums who would commit to following the forum regularly and everyone else could chime in.
We've had a lot of new people join recently. A few days ago someone couldn't get the "watch" feature. Why? She didn't know she had a home page let alone finding it. That's understandable I think, because she had no place to go to find out. A welcome forum would be a great place for easy things like that and all new members could learn that stuff.
But I also think a welcome treemail from the welcome committee would be nice in addition to having that forum and I'd be happy to help.
Karen