I like the recruitment 'depot' being a forum board too. However, it does bring more work to a moderator's table though.
The Recruitment -board would serve it's purpose best when all ads have a clear topic and a unified format. The casual reader and moderators would have an easy way of checking out what's going on. Who's seeking what for what and why ect. +contact address and no other chit-chat is the ideal recruitment post.
For now everything has gone pretty smoothly. Most people who're in the need for members to their projects seem to understand that the better and cleaner the ad is, the more people will want to be a part of the thing.
An interesting experinment if nothing else. Another way of having the topics there, would be to lock them instantly when posted, in a way that only the author would have a modify access to them. This would resemble more the Recruitment Depot's ads. You just state the facts and wait for people to contact you.
Still, somehow I prefer it the way it is. Sometimes it's just called for to make that post and have the author reply to it so that everyone can benefit from his answer.
I'd even like to have plenty of conversation going on in there. Sadly this is not possible for we all know that it will get out of hand very quickly and soon the entire board has lost it's one and only original purpose - to help you recruit for your projects.