Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:40:46 -0500 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Simple bulletin board software for class use? Message-ID: <20021228154046.GC6863@slytherin.ds.psu.edu>
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After using the custom software provided here at Penn State, and, uhm,
finding it lacking ("Please restore from backup." "You'll have to tell
us when it failed" "?!?!?!"), I need to find some simple, presumably
apache-based, web software to run on my workstation.
There will not be more than 70 students per class; I will have well
under 200 users.
I need to be able to feed it a list of names and ID's to set it up--they
all already have psu id's, and one more thing to remember is annoying.
I'd like to be able to script this so that I can email them their
initial password, but that's just frosting.
I do want a login required for access, and I want it to thread the
messages in each section (slashdots nested view is what I'm after).
I'd also like to be able to flag/moderate messages, with the flagging
turning into class points when I do it. Possibly students could have a
limited number of points to moderate one another as well.
Of course, there's always the slashdot code itself, but that seems a bit
extreme for my modest needs.
Oh, and it should be trivial for me to automate backups! Students get
*very* unhappy when their work disappears . . .
Does anyone have any experience with such a thing? I'm sure that there
are a few things in ports that would do it, but having just been bitten,
experience of others weighs more heavily at the moment . . .
hawk
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