ForumDB tool

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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada

ForumDB tool

This is a tool which accepts RFC-822 messages (EG: Email and Newsgroup messages) and presents them as web pages. This allows one to build a hybrid between a mailing list and a Web-forum.

The software for this project is managed through a SourceForge Project. Any comments or offers to help should be sent there, and are greatly appreciated.

Major Features:

Much faster than FLORA's old web-based newsreader as PHP3 does not spawn separate tasks like CGI/PERL does, and the MySQL engine is much faster than INND/NNRPD for reading/searching.
uses a separate library that can be included by information providers who might want to write a custom-view to their forum (EG: discuss Digital Copyright Canada ).
Can have custom-modules written for different output formats, such as the RSS module.
Uses PERL backend which accepts RFC-822 messages from eithor the News or Email systems, allowing further choice in message-forum configurations.

The following sites make use of a version of this tool:

A test list to demonstrate this script
flora-admin-help, part of the FLORA.org helpdesk
comnet-www
Digital Copyright Canada forum
WebCampaigns
Auto-Free Ottawa

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