Re: [seul-edu] BBS?

[Jeff Nelson <jtnelson@emirates.net.ae>]

Some web CGI's, etc. on your local network might do the trick:

I've found a number of free, very useful BBS-type CGI's on 
http://cgi.resourceindex.com; I think one I liked was Discus, and WWWBoard is 
another good one that's in wide use.  I've installed Discus a couple of 
times; it's pretty easy.  

Also, there are some excellent BBS or news-type programs that use PHP and 
MySQL.  Check out Squishdot, for example.  

Also, check out the list of apps at our very own seul.org/edu. 

Jeff Nelson 


> > 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.