"Bulletin Board" software

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (-dsr-)]

Duane Morin wrote:
> I just got tasked at work with finding a 
> bulletin board for our intranet to use.  One friend recommends vBulletin, 
> and I hear that MoveableType is excellent (although I'm not sure it's 
> truly open source, and it's more of a blog thing than a usenet/threaded 
> discussion thing).  The thing is, we'd kinda like a servlet based one.
> So if in the process of answering Bill's question anybody's knows of an 
> open source (or low cost) Java/servlet base bulletin board system I'd like 
> to hear about it :).

MT is nice, but it's primarily a blogging manager, not a discussion
group system. The license is semi-OS: there are no redistribution
rights.

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.

-dsr-

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