Re: [seul-edu] BBS?

[Les Richardson <richl@mail.tfsd.sk.ca>]

Hi,

Why not use a little perl based discussion area by using something like
Chatpro, etc. Simple to setup. Few resources.

Les Richardson



On Mon, 28 May 2001, Doug Loss wrote:

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> From: Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@saipan.com>
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> I have installed a network of four linux boxes in my classroom.  The
> DC wants has a grant to install a dept-wide network, and I want to
> connect.  We will also be on the Inet backbone "RSN" (soon).   
> 
> There has been some one-way discussion by the DC.  His grant required 
> him to set up this departmental  network  so that we can share
> "desktops," etc.  He is a windoze man.
> 
> I think to install a BBS, to facilitate real sharing among department
> members, and to beat him to the punch, while he dreams up more ways of
> "sharing" by way of spying on each other's desktops.  A BBS, I
> reason---with little to no knowledge of the technology, and not even
> having used any BBS for any time at all---might enable us to post and
> share our ideas.  Perhaps files, images, etc.  
> 
> Meanwhile, I have been rewriting my web page---on my own
> nickle---taylored toward my classes both at this school (public hs)
> and the local college where I teach as an adjunct, part time.  
> 
> These  are perhaps two poles on the spectrum of the technology of
> sharing.   As I say I am clueless.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas how this functionality can be had,
> cross-platform?  Keeping it simple?  Yet secure.  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alan Davis
> Marianas High School
> 
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