I think it's a great idea, Guus. That will put focus on the interesting topics, and you still can go to 'chit chat' for fun. Personallaly, I would like a general programming section for non security related programming. But there are many programming newsgroups out there so I suppose I will continue to use them for my programming needs.

And I like to comment on the search-engine on this site. I can't find a way to search all AO forums at the same time without having to search related newsgroups also. It makes searching for old topics difficult. Perhaps that is the resons the newbies can't find answers to their questions?