Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:15:32 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple bulletin board software for class use? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10212281315220.26856-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <20021228154046.GC6863@slytherin.ds.psu.edu>
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> 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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