Hi
Does anyone know of a script similar in style to phpbb (or really any
threaded forum that can show old posts and post new messages), but which can
use a nntp newsgroup as the backend instead of the database. It should need
to be as complex as the phpbb type things, since I don't need any user admin
functions - just show old posts (possibly archive them in a database, but
thats not particularly important), and be able to post back to the
newsgroup. There is a newsgroup server on the same local network as the web
server, so access is no problem.
The main motivation for doing this is that we need a forum for a sports club
to keep members in contact and allow easy communication, but I don't like
web-based stuff, and a lot of people won't bother with read newsgroups
unless its a web page - google's archive is too slow to use since it takes a
long time to pick up messages, and this group will be hosted on a private
password protected news server anyway.
If anyone does know of anything that sounds like it does something similar
please let me know - I have found quite a few but most don't have the
threaded view, or will let you only read posts, or only reply - ideally I
want an all-in-one script I can use fairly quickly at least for now til I
get the time to refine it and make it work exactly as I want.
Thanks
David
Does anyone know of a script similar in style to phpbb (or really any
threaded forum that can show old posts and post new messages), but which can
use a nntp newsgroup as the backend instead of the database. It should need
to be as complex as the phpbb type things, since I don't need any user admin
functions - just show old posts (possibly archive them in a database, but
thats not particularly important), and be able to post back to the
newsgroup. There is a newsgroup server on the same local network as the web
server, so access is no problem.
The main motivation for doing this is that we need a forum for a sports club
to keep members in contact and allow easy communication, but I don't like
web-based stuff, and a lot of people won't bother with read newsgroups
unless its a web page - google's archive is too slow to use since it takes a
long time to pick up messages, and this group will be hosted on a private
password protected news server anyway.
If anyone does know of anything that sounds like it does something similar
please let me know - I have found quite a few but most don't have the
threaded view, or will let you only read posts, or only reply - ideally I
want an all-in-one script I can use fairly quickly at least for now til I
get the time to refine it and make it work exactly as I want.
Thanks
David