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: