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| Subject: | New Forums Software |  |
| Date: | Feb 24, 2004 |
| From: | Paul A. Owen | |
This is the new forums software that I have just made. It replaces the old news server and its web-based gateway. This one is entirely web-based and the messages are now stored in a database. Consequently, for the time being at least, you will not be able to access the forums with a stand alone news reader. I have plans to write an interface in the future. I tried to combine features from other popular forums and news readers.
Your email addresses now appear with your message, they are not readable to email harvesters. If you need to email a response to the author of a message just type in their email address. You can't cut & paste them unfortunately.
I have made some navigation improvements and hopefully eliminated two annoying problems, the double postings and the problem of people posting new topics instead of replies and vice-versa. Also the entire document collection going back until the year 2000 is available. I have plans to load the really old messages I still have on tape. These go back to 1997. At this time I have not been able to get my tape drive to work.
There are a few new forums, notably the "site" forums, these are for the discussion of new content added to the site. The web-based solution enables total integration with the news and web-site so in the future more features can be added.
There may be some problems around, if anything seems odd let me know. A few features do not yet work, image uploading and the search. I'll be adding these in the next couple of days.
Thanks,
Paul. |
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 | New Forums Software - Paul A. Owen - Feb 24, 2004 |
| . . . Re: New Forums Software - Herve Charbonneau - Feb 24, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: New Forums Software - Paul A. Owen - Feb 24, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Worthwhile improvements - Herve Charbonneau - Feb 25, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: New Forums Software - Andy Herbert - Feb 24, 2004 |
| . . . New Forums Software - I like the look - Hassan Howard - Feb 24, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: New Forums Software - I like the look - Paul A. Owen - Feb 24, 2004 |
| . . . Re: New Forums Software - Dave Connolly - Feb 25, 2004 |
| . . . Re: New Forums Software - Robert Lu - Feb 25, 2004 |
| . . . Re: New Forums Software - Chris - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . Re: New Forums Software - Paul A. Owen - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . Marking messages etc. - Andy Herbert - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Marking messages etc. - Paul A. Owen - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Marking messages etc. - Andy Herbert - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Marking messages etc. - Paul A. Owen - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Marking messages etc. - Andrew Herbert - Feb 27, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Looking forward to the return of NNTP access - Ken Hartlen - Feb 28, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Looking forward to the return of NNTP access - Paul A. Owen - Feb 28, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Looking forward to the return of NNTP access - Ken Hartlen - Mar 1, 2004 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Looking forward to the return of NNTP access - Paul A. Owen - Feb 28, 2004 |
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