From Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Mon Dec 23 02:15:07 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 23 Dec 2002 10:15:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 88369 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2002 10:15:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m4.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Dec 2002 10:15:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 2002 10:15:06 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 18QPc2-00011H-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:15:06 -0800 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18QPbm-00010y-00; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:14:50 -0800 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:14:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailgw6.gedas.de ([139.1.44.12] helo=spree.gedas.de) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 18QPbf-00010j-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 02:14:43 -0800 Received: from spree.gedas.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spree.gedas.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22529 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:14:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from blnsem05.de.gedas.vwg (blnsem05.gedas.de [139.1.84.49]) by spree.gedas.de (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22525 for ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:14:06 +0100 (MET) Received: by blnsem05.de.gedas.vwg with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:14:06 +0100 Message-ID: To: "'lojban-list@lojban.org'" Subject: [lojban] Re: BPFK: Call for volunteers: discussion board setup Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:14:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-archive-position: 3626 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: "Newton, Philip" Reply-To: Philip.Newton@datenrevision.de X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=23036112 X-Yahoo-Profile: elder_newton la nitcion. cu cusku di'e > I believe discussion fora are the answer. Does it have to be web-based? One thing that comes to mind is Usenet -- set up a private news server on which you can configure as many newsgroups as you want. Usenet software exists for a variety of platforms and people may already be familiar with a newsreader they like. I think it fulfils the requirements you stated as well: > I have some specific requirements I think we need for such software: > > All the content on one topic is in the one place, and is threaded. All content on one topic can be in one newsgroup. Good newsreaders will thread postings; postings by bad newsreaders can sometimes be minimally threaded at least by subject and date. Thread drift can be handled by Followup-To and/or crossposting. > Preferably there is some hierarchical structure of topics (so > there are subtopics and trees) Hierarchical newsgroups e.g. jboske.cmavo.this, jboske.cmavo.that.subbranch1, jboske.cmavo.that.subbranch2 etc. > There is some way to flag posts as being of particular kinds > (proposed solutions, chat, whatever) Not natively, though a subject line tagging convention (e.g. "[CHAT]") could conceivably be used, as is common in some newsgroups. > There is some way of extracting the text of discussion into > an archive readily. I believe most Usenet server software stores articles as plain text; one could simply take a snapshot of the file system on the server. Or use a newsreader's export facility to dump one or more newsgroups. > New posts to the board can be forwarded to a mailing list. Mail-to-news and news-to-mail gateways are (I postulate) a solved problem. (Undoubtled solved more than once in multiple different ways.) > If anyone knows of software meeting these criteria, please > let me know. I know INN is Usenet server software. There are undoubtedly other packages as well. I'm not familiar with any. mu'omi'e filip. [email copies appreciated, since I read the digest] {ko fukpi mrilu fi mi ki'u le du'u mi te mrilu le notseljmaji} -- filip.niutyn. All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.