On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, kim wrote:
> 'Ello All,
>
> Looking for someone with some previous experience to give me a poke in
> the right direction.
>
> Ive been asked to run a BB/Message Board system and it'll be running off
> openbsd naturally, have scoured the 4.0/packages list but i cant find
> anything useful, board/message etc get me nowhere, has anyone seen or
> heard of a secure message board system that behaves itself and isn't
> just a giant pile of bother?
Sounds like "Any one know of an efficient way to manage a Usenet feed?"
> Ideally I want it to:
>
> Not have ten million "lib" files, nor require ever second piece of open
> source software to be installed.
Hmmm. Kinda rules out most Linux-oriented stuffs.
> Not be so holey as to mean the servers going to go down every ten minutes.
Hmmm. Kinda rules out most Linux-oriented stuffs.
> Have as simplistic a interface as possible, and be as fast as possible
> over dial up.
Hmmm. Kinda rules out most Linux-oriented stuffs.
Simplistic to me means curses-based on an vt100 or whatever.
None of that complicated mouse crap.
> Ignore BB code and every other form of markup inside messages, but it
> should preferably allow European languages.
>
> If anyones got any clues they would be much appreciated.
Just a question: You aren't planning on running this from a
http server, right? I.e. you want an old-fashioned BB like from
the Ancient Daze? The sort of thing where I could actually call
your phone number, or in a pinch telnet/ssh to some box somewhere?
Something like the old "Tomcat" (was that its name?) BBS? There
once was such a system for unixes.
I'm not going to be too much help on this, alas.
I'd say you should budget a few days for that timesink sourceforge.
Lemme poke around a little. I'm bored today.
Dave
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