From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 28 10:15:37 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 23FAC37B401 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:15:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3002743EC5 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 10:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02580; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:15:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 13:15:32 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: "Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simple bulletin board software for class use? In-Reply-To: <20021228154046.GC6863@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 phpbb2 :) 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 > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message