Jim - IPB works with mysql and php. Correct me if I am mistaken but I believe that neither of these have their roots in the windows world.
Load? Look at the lit what load? Money? - Yes. It is what some people pay for support. To have a life body you can contact on a regular basis if have custom features and add ons that have bugs that dont work with the main package. Based on an earlier conversation you should know that people dont have time for perform coder, admin, and moderator functions. But really, lets get back on task and not argue on what I said, or what you thought I said. Like I said before I would even take PHPBB over email lists. KM On 1/27/06, Website Managers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kieran mullen wrote: > > Snitz Forum has these features as well http://forum.snitz.com/ > > > > But its asp based. I dont think many of the users would want that, > > but I have one available if the current server is not based on that. > > Having dealt with ASP on Windows servers I wouldn't want to even > deal with it. If you want to set up a forum on a Windows server, > go for it. I just haven't seen the reliability or performance > from Windows that you can get from Linux/Apache setups. > > > Personally as pathetic as phpbb is anything would be better. > > I've been using PHPBB since its early days and see nothing > pathetic about it. There are many mods that can make the board > rival the for-profit company boards such as RSS feeds, daily > digests, flood protection and a whole lot more. Even the basic > installation does a good job. > > > IPB would be ideal. Owned license instead of VBulletin leased license > > etc. www.invisionpower.com > > > > http://www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/products/board/whyuse.html > > Another Windows sponge. Pay $185 for something that can be > rivaled for free, and it STILL doesn't come with everything > included in the installation. Mods are still needed and they're > not all free either. So what's the point? What makes IPB so much > better than the free software? > > Jim > > > > On 1/27/06, Scott M Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 1/26/06, Alex Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> It will also result in quite a few current readers of this list no longer > >>> being able to follow discussions. There are quite a few who detest the > >>> forum > >>> format (I'm one - I fond them clunky and very difficult to use, and > >>> invariability very slow - Email has disadvantages, but IMO fora have even > >>> more. > >>> > >>> Unless there is some way of forwarding posts to the forum to the mailing > >>> list, > >>> and vice versa, then such a move is of very limited use or benefit > >>> (personally, I can't see any benefit). > >> If you were talking about the older generation of forum software, I > >> would agree its really clunky and hard to use. I hate using those and > >> no longer participate in older generation forums. They are organized > >> poorly and typically don't have the ability to subscribe by e-mail. > >> > >> If you use a modern latest generation forum software, they are > >> actually much better than an e-mail list and are easier to follow. If > >> it wasn't for Gmail's excellent search ability, it would be extremely > >> hard for me to follow this e-mail list. And even then its hard to > >> follow. In a forum, posts are organized better, making it easier to > >> follow and find what you want. Plus you can subscribe (receive > >> e-mails) to only the topics/threads that you want, and not have to > >> subscribe to the whole forum, although you can subscribe to the entire > >> forum if you want too. > >> > >> Basically, the latest generation of forum software (with or without > >> plugins) actually is an e-mail list AND a forum, since both features > >> have now been built into the forum software. > >> > >> There are some forum software that include the entire post in the > >> e-mail notification. Web Wiz Forums ( http://www.webwizforums.com/ ) > >> is one of them. You can subscribe to any topic or forum area without > >> participating, and you will receive e-mails like the ones you are > >> receiving now with the entire text of whatever the person wrote. No > >> need to actually visit the forum unless you want to reply, which a > >> link is provided on the top of each e-mail so you can reply directly > >> to that post without having to wander around the forum. > >> > >> Also, other forum software may have the ability to e-mail the entire > >> content of the post to subscribers as a built in feature or by the > >> forum admin adding a plugin or mod. > >> > >> Using a modern forum software, you actually have the same thing as an > >> e-mail discussion list, with the only difference being that you have > >> to fill out a form on the forum to reply instead of pressing the reply > >> button on your e-mail. And, someone may have written a plugin to > >> handle that as well. depending on the forum software you use. > >> > >> Scott M. 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