From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 7:39:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B3137B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 07:39:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from slytherin.ds.psu.edu (slytherin.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D888143E4A for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 07:39:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu) Received: from slytherin.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slytherin.ds.psu.edu (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gBSFel3l008246 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:40:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu) Received: (from hawk@localhost) by slytherin.ds.psu.edu (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) id gBSFekcX008245 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:40:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:40:46 -0500 From: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Simple bulletin board software for class use? Message-ID: <20021228154046.GC6863@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: House of Hawkins Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message