"Bulletin Board" software

[-dsr-]

Bill Horne wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "-dsr-" <dsr at tao.merseine.nu>
> [snip]
> 
> > For proper discussion groups, I highly recommend actually setting up a
> > news server and adding interfaces to it. The most flexible, of course,
> > are "real" news reader software packages, but there are various
> > HTML-based interfaces available.
> 
> This board is going to be for students, and my friend doesn't want to do any
> handholding for newsreader setup.
> 
> Please point me to the html-based interfaces, and TIA.

Sure. The most ubiquitous ones are found in web browsers: in Mozilla or
in Navigator or IE, try a news:// URL.

Centralized interfaces:

http://www.dgate.org/webnews/
http://mynewsgroups.sourceforge.net/
http://members.cts.com/king/b/bergk/NewsBro/

And probably many more, but this is what a quick perusal of Freshmeat
told me.

-dsr-