web-news (was Forum)

[jcc7]

Justin C Calvarese Wrote:

> bobef wrote:
> > After a fast sf.net search:
> > 
> > http://web-news.sourceforge.net/
> > demo here:
> > https://intranet.cs.hku.hk/services/webnews/newsgroups.php
> > 
> > looks good and I believe PHP is supported on any OS
> 
> Cool!
> 
> I tried installing it on my local Apache server (that I used for 
> testing).  It was easy to install, and it seems to work like a charm.

(I can even use it to reply to another post if this post goes through...)

> 
> > Walter Bright wrote:
> >> bobef wrote:
> >>> This is not really a D problem but still. The new newsgroup web 
> >>> interface is useless (IMO of course). It is impossible to follow a 
> >>> thread (no thread view even). It looks better than the old one 
> >>> (colors and stuff) but whats point if it is unusable...
> >>
> >> I know it stinks. But it's the only one that is (1) free and (2) works 
> >> on a 64 bit BSD unix box (what the server is on).
> >>
> >> The old one we used on the 32 bit BSD box wasn't that good, either.
> >>
> >> I can't believe it's that hard to write a decent one.
> 
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> jcc7