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gbdg
February 7th, 2003, 04:54 PM
Despite my pleas to use something like Snitz, this board, or other such message board, my client insists that we implement a message board such as is demonstrated in this site:

http://www.danblanton.com/bulletin.html

Does anyone know of an ASP message board, which they have successfully installed and operated, that presents messages in this format?

Thanks

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Manish Malik
February 8th, 2003, 03:41 AM
The most popular board using that style was Matt's "wwwboard" w/ Perl. There have been a number of ASP offshoots for that ... this one (http://www.chase3000.com/stephenh/default.asp?fr=projects/wwwboard.htm) would be pretty much what you want, but the download links are broekn at the moment (e-mail the author); though you can view a demo here (http://www.chase3000.com/wwwboard/).

There is another simple ASP board here (http://www.aspwebsoft.com/), see if it suits your requirement.

Coming to the ASP/Perl talk, the board at the url you quoted, uses only a single perl script, that is called when a message is posted to the board. Installing ActivePerl (www.activestate.com) on a WinNT/2k/xp machine is painless and you can quickly get a perl script running for that matter. So unless your client insists on 'ASP only' due to one reason or the other, I would suggest looking up Perl or PHP webboards -- most of them have been in development for a long time and do offer many moderation abilities behind the simple wwwboard interface. This (http://amsoft.ru/ruboard/) is a simple wwwboard clone if you wish to go that way.