From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 05:04:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4581065674 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:04:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC218FC18 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:04:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m5A54jvN013228; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:04:39 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Andrew Berry Message-ID: <20080610050439.GB32707@thought.org> References: <20080609213118.GA21965@thought.org> <34B68233-263C-4C09-A904-13728B605B2B@sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34B68233-263C-4C09-A904-13728B605B2B@sentex.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what ype of app? port of "*free*"-service app? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:04:45 -0000 On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:50:45PM -0400, Andrew Berry wrote: > On 9-Jun-08, at 5:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > This is a bit hard to figure out how to phrase, so please bear > > with me. I want to put-back a BBS/forum type app somewhere on my > > site so that members of my writing group can continue to help me > > with their suggestions and edits of my Jottings project. Some > > people are taking a break for the summer, &c. > > It sounds like you might want a Wiki of some kind. Mediawiki and > MoinMoin are both good, and if you're dealing with source code take a > look at Trac. > > phpBB is pretty decent, but I haven't used it in a while. Most CMS's > also include forums of some kind. I'm partial to Drupal, but there's a > good selection of choices at http://www.opensourcecms.com/ , and many > of the popular ones will be in the ports tree. > > --Andrew hey, a kwik thankyew, andrew.... more tomorrow, ii dont know WHY i've been this tired in recent weeks, but i am. gary ps: What a wealth of software; it boggles my mind..... have just checked with my group. .... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org