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Re: [LUG] Forums

 

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Neil Stone wrote:

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All,

I've decided I want to look in to running an online forum where users
can post their queries and have others reply..

Of course mailman or similar popped to mind, but to be honest it's not
as easy to use for noobs as a fuzzy web interface.

It'd need to be able to restrict access based on group memberships
(none/ro/rw) and have multiple levels of navigation (eg, one forum
section for cake, one for biscuits, one for jelly) each with its own acl's.

So.. what has anyone experiance with that can, or can't, do this please ?

Have you gotten anywhere yet?

I've been using a site recently that's running "phorum" -

   http://www.phorum.org/

and

  http://www.phorum.org/demo/

Looks fairly simple, but ticks most boxes, and http://forums.mysql.com/ is a rather (in)famous user of it... Been about for a long time too, so hopefully "robust".

Gordon

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