The OpenACS (an open source community system toolkit) forums package has the following features available:
- reply-by-email to the forums as well as normal posting to the web page - RSS feeds of the forums - Email notifications, either instant (each message is an email) or batched hourly or daily. - Moderated and unmoderated forum options - Threaded and untheaded forums - It can be implemented to show the user's portrait like Moodle does. - The forums can use a WYSIWYG editor that supports basic html and can allow users to upload and put images into their posts. Just like the mouse with a cookie, this isn't our holy grail, we always strive for more. The latest project is about importing and exporting large mailing list archives and making them searchable. There is also a project that is interested in supporting discussions that are about pictures (a medical mailing list that uses images extensively). http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=389793 Note not all these features are turned on on openacs.org . There are implementation issues with reply-by-email that make it not for everyone. For instance, vacation messages and email clients that automatically quote everything resulting in very long posts. Cheers, Caroline Meeks On 4/4/06, Ed Gragert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > We use such a hybrid system for all iEARN student and teacher interaction > world wide to insure that we do not exclude people who do have easy or > inexpensive access to the web. We use a commercial product called > "Webcrossing" (that they donate to us as an educational non-profit > organization), which allows for nntp/newsgroup and e-mail feeds in and out > of a web forum structure. > > Ed > > > On 4/4/06 6:22 AM, "Chris Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:20 -0500, Michael Maranda wrote: > > > >> To be clear: my minimal image is a listserv-forum hybrid that the users > can > >> interact with via email and reply or by direct posting to the forum in > a > >> browserĊ . With options for privacy, and possibility of public archiving > or > >> delayed public archiving, and all the other features a moderator or > >> listwoner might want for management of the group/list? > > > > Have you heard of DGroups [http://www.dgroups.org/]? It allows you to > > post via email or the web (with a password). > > > > Moodle may be another option. You can only post through the web > > interface, but you can opt to receive notification of new posts on > > certain lists by email. > > > > Cheers, Chris. > > > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the word UNSUBSCRIBE in > the body of the message. > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-395-7966 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
