At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:50:07 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 4/27/2011 9:24 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > > At Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:56:44 -0400 CentOS mailing list<centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > >> > >> I use inn to make internal company announcements and > >> discussions available to remote offices. > >> I note inn is removed form RHEL 6. What replaces inn? > >> > >> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Technical_Notes/apc.html > >> > >> Will inn be available from elsewhere? Will I have to compile > >> it? > >> > >> Should I modify my scripts to create and install html files > >> for a web server? That would make article deletion, archiving, > >> and maintenance more difficult than it is with the inn > >> nntp server. > >> > >> Is there some "forum" type package that would be better > >> than the inn system? > > > > You could install one of several (open source) CMS packages, that work > > with a database (MySQL) and a Webserver (Apache) and are generally > > coded in PHP. WordPress is a fairly simple system that might give you > > what you want. Not exactly a "forum", but does allow people to > > 'comment' on blog entries (posts), which might be all you need. It > > does allow for the site adminstrator to grant authoring privs to other > > users. And there might be plugins that implement full-fledged forums > > (I haven't looked). Joomla! is a more comprehensive CMS system and it > > does have extensions that implement forums. > > A wiki works well for this sort of thing too, especially if it has the > ability to email notifications about updates. Inn/news does have an > advantage in scaling and resource consumption, but the real issue here > is retraining the users, especially if they are currently using a combo > news/email client that automatically sees new messages posted to a > group. I've always wondered if there is a free equivalent of the > software running http://news.lugnet.com/ which seems to be > simultaneously a web forum, a newsgroup, and an email list, depending on > how you access it. I think Mailman might have a news=>mailing list 'gateway' function and I think there are news=>web forum gateway packages 'out there'. It is possible http://news.lugnet.com/ is just a nntp server (eg inn) with some 'addon' packages (eg Mailman). > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments