I'm familiar with forum administrating (not on sf.net), as already been said, it has pros and cons.
Pros: - Messages can be self edited by posters and/or moderators. - Rich text, pretty messages, CODE tags, ... (in mails we usually does not like HTML messages). - User can read threads in interest, and not all message (if he or she does not like too of course). Cons: - The sf.net site is VERY slow which it make unpleasant to work with. This is a major turn down for me. - Search is limited! Forum engines does not index all words, it break each message and insert some reference to the words used in that message in its database. Some words are ignored, ... at the end it is sometimes hard to find something with the built in search. - Spam: I don't know sf.net forum spam filters, but regular forums are tend to be bombed with bot spammers that are tuned to your forum engine (phpBB, vBulletin, ...). Those IMG and URL tags are highly exploitable. - As Phill had said, forums are exploitable (because their scripts are so complex). This can be a less issue if the hosting is secure (I think SF at least try to). We can try to work with the SF for a while, and see what happen. I can help if its needed. Chen. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
