If I may offer a suggestion, we can also add message fulltext email functionality to open-source forum software such as phpbb.
----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel Escasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 12:35:06 AM Subject: Re: [plug] RFC: Web-Based Forum for PLUG Community Sabi ko noong Tue, Dec 5, 2006 at 10:46 AM: > I'm all for a Web-based forum, the only major issue I can think of > being users with low bandwidth. A hybrid Web-and-email forum is IMHO > the best mix. Look at the Affinity groups at N-TEN -- > http://groups.nten.org/welcome.htm -- which provides for both Web and > email access *and* can group by threads as in vBulletin. I haven't > been able to find out what software they use, can find out. N-TEN is > the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network. I should've known from the Powered By logo at the bottom of their pages. It's not "their" software, apparently they're hosting the site at GoLightly (http://www.golightly.com), whose technology is built on open source software, enumerated at http://www.golightly.com/software.htm?page=technology . Thing is, their services aren't free, and start at US$6,000 (yup, that's six thousand dollars) for setup plus $295 a month. Ugh. Besides, both GoLightly, and therefore NTEN, are excruciatingly slow to load. Maybe we can build something based on some of the software they use? -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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